Optimal capacitor placement using deterministic and genetic algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1041-1046

  Delfanti, Maurizo ^a   Granelli, Gianpietro P ^a   Marannino, Paolo ^a   Montagna, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; CAPACITOR PLACEMENT PROBLEM; REACTIVE COMPENSATION DEVICES; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 0034243086     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.871731     Document Type: Article

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