The study focuses on the technical performance analysis of a radial distribution network in rapidly urbanising area under current, future, and optimised scenarios. control this research is Tarkeshwor Municipality, Nepal, which lies outer stretch Kathmandu, representing loads. In paper, electric cooking load has been added to long term forecasted up ten years from now, emerging technology that a...

This paper presents an optimization algorithm for simultaneous improvement of power quality (PQ), optimal placement and sizing of fixed capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of voltage and current harmonics. The algorithm is based on particle swarm optimization (PSO). The objective function includes the cost of power losses, energy losses and those of the capacitor ban...

A distribution system is an interface between the bulk power system and the consumers. Among these systems, radial distributions system is popular because of low cost and simple design. In distribution systems, the voltages at buses reduces when moved away from the substation, also the losses are high. The reason for decrease in voltage and high losses is the insufficient amount of reactive pow...

In this paper, simultaneous placement of distributed generation, capacitor bank and protective devices are utilized to improve the efficiency of the distribution network. The objectives of the problem are reduction of active and reactive power losses, improvement of voltage profile and reliability indices and increasing distribution companies’ profit. The combination of firefly algorithm, parti...

This paper undertakes the problem of loss reduction in a radial distribution System. The objective is to determine the suitable size and location of the capacitors to be placed on a radial distribution system. The objective function is to increase of saving due to reduction of energy losses thereby taking into consideration cost of capacitor. In this part, load flow solution for the radial feed...

Shunt capacitors installation in distribution systems requires optimal placement and sizing. More harmonics are being injected into distribution systems. Adding shunt capacitors may lead to high distortion levels. The capacitor placement and sizing problem is a nonlinear integer optimization problem, with locations and ratings of shunt capacitors being discrete values. The goal is to minimize t...

In this study, the planning problem concerned with simultaneous placement of distribution generation (DG) and capacitor bank in the distribution network is investigated from a local distribution company’s (DISCO’s) viewpoint based on minimum total cost over the planning period and applying genetic algorithm (GA). The cost terms of the objective function include risk cost of load not supplied of...

This paper uses an effective method, CODEQ method, with integer programming for solving the capacitor placement problems in distribution systems. Different from the original differential evolution (DE), the concepts of chaotic search, opposition-based learning, and quantum mechanics are used in the CODEQ method to overcome the drawback of selection of the crossover factor and scaling factor use...