Capacitor Placement in Distribution Systems Using Simulating Annealing (SA)

This paper undertakes the problem of optimal capacitor placement in a distribution system. The problem is how to optimally determine the locations to install capacitors, the types and sizes of capacitors to he installed and, during each load level,the control settings of these capacitors in order that a desired objective function is minimized while the load constraints,network constraints and operational constraints (e.g. voltage profile) at different load levels are satisfied. The problem is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem with a nondifferentiable objective function. Four solution mythologies based on algorithms (GA),tabu search (TS), and hybrid GA-SA algorithms are presented.The solution methodologies are preceded by a sensitivity analysis to select the candidate capacitor installation locations.

Authors:

• Esmail Limouzade
• Mahmood.Joorabian
• Najaf Hedayat

Keywords:

• Genetic Algorithm (GA)
• capacitor placement
• voltage profile
• network losses
• Simulated Annealing
• distribution network.

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