State of the art in optimal capacitor allocation for reactive power compensation in distribution feeders

LESCOPE 2002 - 2002 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering: Energy for the Future, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 61-75

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

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^c Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COST FUNCTIONS; CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER;

CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; LOSS MINIMIZATION; OPTIMAL CAPACITOR ALLOCATION; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER LOSS REDUCTION; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 1842839490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LESCPE.2002.1020668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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