Optimal placement, replacement and sizing of capacitor banks in distorted distribution networks by genetic algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1794-1801

  Masoum, Mohammad A S ^a   Ladjevardi, Marjan ^b   Jafarian, Akbar ^b   Fuchs, Ewald F ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

CAPACITOR BANKS; CURRENT HARMONICS; DISTORTED DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; POWER QUALITY; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; VOLTAGE HARMONICS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 7244255870     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2004.835438     Document Type: Article

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