This paper presents the application of the improved harmony search (IHS) algorithm for determining the optimal location and sizing of static Var compensator (SVC) to improve the voltage profile and reduce system power losses. A multi-criterion objective function comprising of both operational objectives and investment costs is considered. The results on the 57-bust test system showed that the I...

Received Jan 18, 2017 Revised Mar 18, 2017 Accepted Apr 2, 2017 In recent years, applications of facts systems have been developed for the compensation of active and reactive power. Facts systems are electronics devices that are connected to the wind farm. This paper presents the impacts of some of these devices on the stability of a wind farm, especially D-STATCOM, Static Var Compensator and F...

In large power systems, low frequency electro-mechanical oscillations often follow the electrical disturbances. Generally, power system stabilizers (PSS) are used in conjunction with Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR) to damp out the oscillations. However, during some operating conditions this device may not produce adequate damping and other effective alterations are needed in addition to PSS....

This paper deals with the design of multi-machine power system stabilizers (PSSs) and Static var compensator (SVC) using Modified shuffled frog leaping algorithm (MSFLA). The effectiveness of the proposed scheme for optimal setting of the PSSs and SVC controllers has been attended. The PSSs and SVC controllers designing is converted to an optimization problem in which the speed deviations betwe...

This paper presents an optimal design of a Static Var Compensator (SVC) for damping improvement of a Single Machine Infinite Bus (SMIB) system. In this study, SVC is installed to improve the angle stability of a synchronous generator. A new computational intelligence approach using Mutated Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO) technique is implemented. The study involves the optimization of the pr...

This paper proposes Bacteria Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) based Static Var Compensator (SVC) for the suppression of oscillations in a multimachine power system. The proposed design problem of SVC over a wide range of loading conditions is formulated as an optimization problem with an eigenvalue based objective function. BFOA is employed to search for optimal controller parameters. The...

A power system, under heavily loaded conditions, is at high risks of probable line outage and consequent voltage instability problem. Real power loss and voltage deviation minimization are reliable indicators of voltage security of power networks. This paper proposes a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based optimal location and sizing of Static Var Compensator (SVC) to improve voltage stabilit...

A study is presented on power oscillation damping control (POD) using wide area measurements applied to a single static var compensator (SVC). An equivalent power system model representing key characteristics of the Nordic power system is used. Feedback signals from remote phasor measurment units (PMUs) in Norway and Finland are used to damp the critical inter-area modes through a large SVC uni...

In this paper the control strategies of svc are described.SVC is used to stabilize the voltage profile in a grid system.In the designing of SVC there is a combination of three TSC’s and one TCR.The SVC consists of a group of shunt connected capacitor banks and inductors with fast speed of response afforded by thyristor switching. The SVC provides the required amount of reactive power compensati...

The main objective of the present paper is to introduce a new approach for measuring and calculation of fundamental power components in the case of various distorted waveforms including those containing harmonics. The parameters of active, reactive, apparent power and power factor, are measured and calculated by using Goertzel algorithm instead of fast Fourier transformation which is commonly u...