New heuristic strategies for reactive power compensation of radial distribution feeders

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1128-1135

  Mekhamer, S F ^a   El Hawary, M E ^a   Soliman, S A ^b   Moustafa, M A ^c   Mansour, M M ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Capacitor placement; Cost function; Heuristic search; Power loss reduction; Radial distribution feeder

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; HEURISTIC METHODS; REACTIVE POWER;

RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036814172     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2002.804004     Document Type: Article

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