Investigation of voltage imbalance due to distribution network unbalanced line configurations and load levels

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1829-1838

  Yan, Ruifeng ^a   Saha, Tapan Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Network reconfiguration; Unbalanced line; Unbalanced load; Voltage imbalance

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION LEVELS; DISTRIBUTION POWER SYSTEMS; LINE CONFIGURATION; NETWORK RE-CONFIGURATION; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGES; UNBALANCED LINE; UNBALANCED LOADS; VOLTAGE IMBALANCE;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY RESOURCES;

LOADING;

EID: 84886434749     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2225849     Document Type: Article

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