Optimal Location and Sizing of Capacitor Using Differential Evolution

N. Visali*, M. Satish Kumar Reddy**, M Surendranatha Reddy***
* Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, JNTUACEP, Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, India.
** Professor, Vaagdevi Institute of Technology and Sciences, Proddatur, India.
*** Assistant Professor, Vaagdevi Institute of Technology and Sciences, Proddatur, India.
Periodicity:August - October'2013
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jps.1.3.2463

Abstract

Distribution system plays an important role in supplying the electricity from generation to the consumers via transmission system. The power system is one of the most complex systems in the world. Because of the high R/X value the losses in the distribution system is more. The one of the roles of capacitor is reducing the losses in the distribution system. This paper presents an improved method for capacitor placement with optimum size in radial distribution feeders to reduce the real power loss and to improve the voltage profile. In this paper, the total work is mainly divided in to three sections. In the first section load flow of the system. In the section –II location and size of the capacitors is determined by using Differential Evolution and In the section-III the results are compared with existing method which is proposed by the author.

Keywords

Element Incidence Matrix, Radial Distribution Power Flow, Linear Recursive Equations, Transmission Loss, Differential Evolution.

How to Cite this Article?

Visali, N., Reddy, M. S. K., and Reddy, M. S. (2013). Optimal Location and Sizing of Capacitor Using Differential Evolution. i-manager’s Journal on Power Systems Engineering, 1(3), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.26634/jps.1.3.2463

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