The objective of this study is to solve the simultaneous network reconfiguration and capacitor placement for loss reduction in distribution systems. The work employs a meta-heuristic method called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). The ACO algorithm tries to emulate the behaviour of real ants by which they are able to identify the shortest path between a food source and their nest. The proposed app...

The Los Alamos computational model of exploding metallic foil behavior has been used to analyze and design a wide range of experiments in which exploding metallic foils were driven by the output current of capacitor banks and magnetic flux compression generators. Currents in the experiments ranged from 1 kA-16 MA and foil conduction times ranged from 200 ns-300 J.lS. The successes and limitatio...

Fault location has been studied deeply for transmission lines due to its importance in power systems. Nowadays the problem of fault location on distribution systems is receiving special attention mainly because of the power quality regulations. In this context, this paper analyses the influence of the capacitance of cables and compensation capacitor banks when impedance-based algorithms are use...

Shunt capacitors are commonly used in distribution system for reactive power compensation. Different analytical, numerical programming, heuristic and artificial intelligent based techniques have been proposed in the literature for optimum shunt capacitor bank (SCB) placement. This paper will present a very detailed overview of optimum SCB placement techniques. Six different approaches of optimu...

Industries having poor power factor face the problem of reduced power quality and increased electricity charges. To improve the power factor, capacitor banks of appropriate KVAR ratings are to be placed. In this paper the inductive loads in a sugar mill are investigated and suitable power factor improvement capacitors are recommended. The effect of low power factor on distribution losses and KV...

Point of common coupling (PCC) arrays are the most prominent and widely-used intermittent distributed generations (DGs). Due to right-of-way, environmental, economical other restrictions, connection these types DGs preferred point distribution network is very difficult or impossible in some cases. Therefore, because non-optimal locations, they may cause a voltage rise at PCC. In this paper, coo...