Capacitor placement and real time control in large-scale unbalanced distribution systems: Loss reduction formula, problem formulation, solution methodology and mathematical justification

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 953-958

  Wang, Jin Cheng ^a,b   Chiang, Hsiao Dong ^a,b   Miu, Karen Nan ^a,b   Darling, Gary ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c NYSEG Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor Placement; Large Scale Systems; Loss Formula; Quadratic Integer Programming; Real time Control; Unbalanced Distribution Systems; VAR Volt Control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; QUADRATIC INTEGER PROGRAMMING; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031124159     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.584419     Document Type: Article

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