A heuristic constructive algorithm for capacitor placement on distribution systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1619-1626

  da Silva Jr , Ivo Chaves ^a,b   Carneiro Jr , Sandoval ^a   de Oliveira, Edimar José ^b   de Souza Costa, Jeferson ^b   Rezende Pereira, José Luiz ^b   Garcia, Paulo Augusto Nepomuceno ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heuristic programming; Lagrange multipliers; Optimal capacitor placement; Optimal power flow

Indexed keywords

BUS VOLTAGE; CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; CONSTRUCTIVE ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHM APPROACH; INTEGER VARIABLES; INTERIOR POINT; MIXED INTEGER OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; OPTIMAL POWER FLOW; OPTIMAL POWER FLOWS; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY INDICES; SIGMOID FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ALGORITHMS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 68549124729     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2008.2004742     Document Type: Article

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