Optimal capacitor placement and sizing in unbalanced distribution systems with harmonics consideration using particle swarm optimization

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1734-1741

  Eajal, Abdelsalam A ^a   El Hawary, M E ^b  

^a University of Altahadi   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Harmonics; particle swarm; shunt capacitors

Indexed keywords

BUS VOLTAGE; CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; DISCRETE VALUES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZER; HARMONIC POWER FLOW; HYBRID PSO; INTEGER OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL CAPACITOR PLACEMENT; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; OVERALL COSTS; PARTICLE SWARM; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL POWER LOSS; SHUNT CAPACITORS; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PROBLEM SOLVING;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 77954014580     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2035425     Document Type: Article

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