This paper presents the use of a new meta-heuristic technique namely gray wolf optimizer (GWO) which is inspired from gray wolves’ leadership and hunting behaviors to solve optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem. ORPD problem is a well-known nonlinear optimization problem in power system. GWO is utilized to find the best combination of control variables such as generator voltages, tap c...

This paper presents a new power system planning strategy which combines firefly algorithm (FFA) with pattern search algorithm (PS). The purpose is minimizing total fuel cost, total power loss and reducing total voltage deviation, with the objective of enhancing the loading margin stability and consequently the power system security. A new interactive and simple mechanism, inspired in brainstorm...

Abstract— This paper presents the model of a static VAR compensator (SVC) which is controlled externally by a Proportional Integral Differential (PID) controller for the improvements of voltage stability and damping effect of an on line power system. The PID controller parameters has been selected by using Ziegler-Nichols tuning rule method. Both single phase and three phase faults have been co...

Power Semiconductor switches of active rectifier are characterized by highly nonlinear property, resulting in high harmonic distortion and high ripple voltage on the DC side. This paper presents advanced control using switch function and fuzzy logic for compensating nonlinear behaviour. The system applies switch function of time as the input of control strategy, instead of current and voltage i...

The current-voltage (I-V) conversion characterizes the physiology of cellular microdomains and reflects cellular communication, excitability, and electrical transduction. Yet deriving such I-V laws remains a major challenge in most cellular microdomains due to their small sizes and the difficulty of accessing voltage with a high nanometer precision. We present here novel analytical relations de...

This study presents a subthreshold complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) voltage reference circuit that adopts dynamical body bias to compensate the process-related reference voltage fluctuation. The proposed circuit generates a mean reference voltage of 0.781 V at 1.2 V supply and 278C, reduces the standard deviation (s) of the reference voltage from 11 mV to only 3 mV, and meanwhile ...

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 high-speed and high-accuracy continuous-time common-mode feedback block (CMFB) is presented. To satisfy speed and accuracy requirements, some modi ̄cations have been applied on di®erential di®erence ampli ̄er (DDA) CMFB circuit. The proposed method is applied to a folded cascode op-amp with power supply of 3.3V. In order to verify the proposed circuit, simulations are done in 0.35 m standard CM...

Consolidation of shunt capacitors plays an important role in radial distribution networks. Among many of their merits, line loss and total harmonic distortion (THD) reduction, voltage profile improvement and reactive power compensation can be the salient specifications of shunt capacitors. Studies show that non-optimal locations shunt capacitor units lead to increase loss, together with bad eff...

Nowadays, integration of new devices like Distributed Generation, small energy storage and smart meter, to distribution networks introduced new challenges that require more sophisticated control strategies. This paper proposes a new technique called Optimal Coordinated Voltage Control (OCVC) to solve a multi-objective optimization problem with the objective to minimize the voltage error at pilo...