Reactive power compensation and load balancing in electric power distribution systems

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 375-381

  Singh, Bhim ^a   Chandra, Ambrish ^b   Al Haddad, Kamal ^b   Anuradha, ^a   Kothari, D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Electrical Engineering Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensator; Load balancing; Reactive power compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347660347     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0142-0615(98)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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