Optimal Capacitor Placement, Replacement and Control in Large-Scale Unbalanced Distribution Systems: System Solution Algorithms and Numerical Studies

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 363-369

  Darling, Gary ^a   Wang, Jin Cheng ^a   Tong, Jianzhong ^a   Chiang, Hsiao Dong ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b NYSEG Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor Placement; Capacitor Replacement; Control; Greedy Search; Large Scale Systems; Loss Minimization; Simulated Annealing; Un balanced Distribution Systems; VAR Volt

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIMULATED ANNEALING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; CAPACITOR REPLACEMENT; LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LOSS MINIMIZATION; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029252602     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: 15580679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.373957     Document Type: Article

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