Allocation of UPFC in distribution system to minimize the losses

Author

Jaiswal, Sunil Prasad ; Shrivastava, Vivek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., RTU, Kota, India

fYear

2014

fDate

28-29 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

205

Abstract

FACTS technology was introduced into the distribution system (then called FACDS) to improve the distribution system performance. UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller) is considered to be one of the best suited for power flow control as it controls all the three parameters of distribution line (i.e. impedance, voltage and phase angle). This paper presents a method for minimizing the distribution losses and improving the node voltage profile using UPFC. MATLab program was developed for power flow analysis using Newton-Raphson algorithms and to obtain the optimal location of UPFC using minimum loss as objective function. The proposed method is tested on the IEEE 33 RDS (radial distribution system) standard network.

Keywords

Newton-Raphson method; flexible AC transmission systems; load flow control; power distribution control; FACDS; FACTS technology; IEEE 33 RDS standard network; IEEE 33 radial distribution system standard network; MATLab program; Newton-Raphson algorithms; UPFC allocation; distribution line; distribution loss minimization; distribution system performance improvement; impedance parameter; node voltage profile improvement; phase angle parameter; power flow analysis; unified power flow controller; voltage parameter; Equations; Load flow; Mathematical model; Reactive power; Steady-state; Voltage control; FACDS; UPFC; distributed generation; injection model; optimal location; radial distribution system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence on Power, Energy and Controls with their impact on Humanity (CIPECH), 2014 Innovative Applications of

Conference_Location

Ghaziabad

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIPECH.2014.7018212

Filename

7018212