A comparison of load flow analysis using DistFlow, Gauss-Seidel, and optimal load flow algorithms

Author

Gilbert, G.M. ; Bouchard, D.E. ; Chikhani, A.Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., R. Mil. Coll. of Canada, Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

24-28 May 1998

Firstpage

850

Abstract

The state of a power system and the methods of calculating this state are extremely important in evaluating the operation of the power system, the control of this system, and the determination of future expansion for the power system. The state of the power system is determined through load flow analysis that calculates the power flowing in the lines of the system. There are several different methods to determine the load flow of a given system. For the purposes of this paper, only three methods of load flow algorithms are evaluated: Gauss-Seidel, optimal load flow, and the DistFlow method

Keywords

Newton-Raphson method; load flow; power distribution control; power system state estimation; DistFlow method; Gauss-Seidel algorithm; Newton-Raphson method; distribution automation; distribution network control; load flow analysis; optimal load flow algorithms; power system state estimation; Admittance; Control systems; Equations; Gaussian processes; Load flow; Load flow analysis; Power system analysis computing; Power system control; Power system reliability; Power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998. IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Waterloo, Ont.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4314-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1998.685631

Filename

685631