The present day ever escalating power demand moves the operating point ofthe distribution networks in vicinity of voltage stability boundaries.Any small reactive unbalance between generation and demandmay trigger instability, which makes magnitude to fallslowly until a rapid change occurs. This paper presents an adaptive dragonflyoptimization based method for placement shunt capacitor banks wit...

The quality of electric power has been a constant topic of study, mainly because inherent problems to it can lead to great economic losses, especially in industrial processes. Among the various factors that affect power quality, those related to transients originating from capacitor bank (CB) switching in the primary distribution systems must be highlighted. This paper ‎presents an Artificial N...

In this paper, a modified simulated annealing technique is proposed for simultaneous improvement of power quality and optimal placement and sizing of fixed capacitor banks in a modern distribution network. The later is supplying a mix of linear and nonlinear loads imposing voltage and current harmonics. Besides, they include integrated variable-speed wind turbines as distributed generation. The...

This paper provides a new approach in decision making process for shunt capacitor placement in distribution networks. The main core of the evaluation process is a multi-objective framework to allocate the capacitor banks. The power loss and the total harmonic distortion (THD) are the objective functions of the system under study in a long-term planning horizon. In order to select the executive ...

This paper investigates the role of Static Var Compensator (SVC) on stability of voltage in grid system due to the presence of harmonics.. Here the design of SVC is based on the combination of Thyristor switched capacitors (TSC’s) and Thyristor controlled reactor (TCR) . TSC’s are used for switching the capacitor banks on and off while the TCR continuously controls the reactive power by varying...

in distribution systems, in order to diminish power losses and keep voltage profiles within acceptable limits, network reconfiguration and capacitor placement are commonly used. in this paper, the hybrid shuffled frog leaping algorithm (hsfla) is used to optimize balanced and unbalanced radial distribution systems by means of a network reconfiguration and capacitor placement. high accuracy and ...

This paper proposes a fuzzy set optimization approach for capacitor allocation in radial distribution system. In this approach, a membership function for voltage profile constraint has been used. Moreover, another membership function incorporating feeder section active power losses and total power losses constraints has been proposed. This membership function indirectly imposes thermal capabili...