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This paper provides a new approach to find the optimal location for Microgrids (MGs) in electric distribution systems using complex network analysis. An optimal location in this paper refers to a location that would result in increased grid resilience, reduced power losses, less line loading, higher voltage stability and secured supply to critical loads during power outage. The criteria used to find...
Many studies indicate the importance of distributed generation (DG) as one of the best alternatives to conventional energy sources. The growth in population is causing a significant increase in electricity demand all over the world, which creating a considerable need for further investment in the electric network infrastructure. However, integration of new renewable energy source in the distribution...
The electrical power system loses its synchronization when it is subjected to a sudden event, such as high or low voltage and/or current levels due to disturbances, for instance, short circuits, lightning and the switching of the inductive loads. This paper presents the analysis of a coordination technique of resistive type superconducting fault current limiter (RSFCL) and shunt Static synchronous...
This paper demonstrates on the development of weak bus identification method using novel reactive power tracing index for determination and selection on appropriate buses for load shedding purpose. Power tracing principles using downstream looking algorithm is utilized for the development of a novel reactive power tracing index known as LQP_LT. The results obtained from the weak bus identification...
Numerous stability indices have been developed to assess the voltage stability of power networks, since it is a powerful tool to identify the weakest bus and critical lines. To expand the knowledge of power tracing theory and its application into voltage stability assessment, this paper adopts the power tracing capable index into load shedding scheme. A modified novel line stability factor index with...
Locating the suitable locations in power system for the purpose of Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices installation can be realized via wide variety of techniques, and commonly applied by many researchers are sensitivity analysis and optimization approach. On the other hand, there are also various power tracing techniques have been invented by researchers, but their application...
This paper presents a new optimization approach for tuning conventional PID controller parameters of a static var compensator (SVC) which controls a synchronous machine. SVC is designed and implemented to improve the damping of a synchronous generator. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method based PID controller using SVC is implemented in this study. The study involves the optimization of proportional...
Application of the viable technologies in the new millennium has discovered successfulness in reducing undesirable problems related to power system operation. The advent of computational intelligence methods are mostly assisting to achieve high efficiency for controlling the changing of sophisticated process flow in industrials. Congestion problem in power system is a crucial issue as it leads to...
This paper presents Evolutionary Programming (EP) based optimization technique for estimating PI controller parameters of a static var compensator (SVC) which controls a synchronous machine. SVC is one type of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) device, designed and implemented to improve the damping of a synchronous generator, as well as controlling the system voltage. This paper introduced...
microgrid systems is a new technology for improving reliability and providing alternative energy supplies to the grid system. Low voltage faults in the system are one of the critical issues that require distributed generating sources to disconnect from grid provide energy to the load. Therefore the techniques used in the micro grid system with micro soures can be important in reducing the problems...
In this paper, a hybrid optimization technique is presented to solve the well-known problem of tuning power system stabilizers' (PSSs) parameters. The hybrid technique is derived from particle swarm optimization (PSO) by adding the passive congregation model. The tuning of the PSS parameters is formulated as the multi-objective function with constraints including the damping ratio and damping factor...
This paper analyzing influence of distributed generation (DG) on transient stability of power system network operating parallel with large renewable energy resources (RES) power plant. The study is performed in hypothetical power system network envision in the future which contains a large number of DG. Network behavior when subjected to disturbance is compared with different level of DG penetration...
This paper concerns with transient stability control which is part of transient stability assessment which needs to be considered so that the power systems remained intact when failures originating from faults occurred in power systems. Conventional UFLS system is designed to retrieve the balance of generation and consumption following disturbances occurrences in the system. In UFLS method, whenever...
In this study, the problem of simultaneous and coordinated tuning method for thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC) power oscillation damping controllers and conventional power system stabilizer (PSS) controllers in multi-machine power systems is considered. For a multi-machine power system, the tuning of the PSS and TCSC controllers is generally formulated as an objective function with constraints...
This paper presents transient stability assessment of a large actual power system using the probabilistic neural network (PNN) with enhanced feature selection and extraction method. The investigated large power system is divided into five smaller areas depending on the coherency of the areas when subjected to disturbances. This is to reduce the amount of data sets collected for the respective areas...
Voltage sags are an important power quality problem for which the dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is known as an effective device to mitigate them. This paper presents a new control algorithm for dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) that mitigates voltage sag by low active power injection with short time delay. This work is based on two-vector control technique using 12 pulse inverter. A smooth control technique...
This paper presents the application of support vector machines (SVM) for determining voltage unstable areas in an actual power system. The voltage unstable area is first determined based on the power transfer stability index (PTSI) calculated using information obtained from dynamic simulation output. Simulations were carried out on a practical 87 bus test system by considering load increase as the...
This paper presents transient stability assessment of a large practical power system using two artificial neural network techniques which are the probabilistic neural network (PNN) and the least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM). The large power system is divided into five smaller areas depending on the coherency of the areas when subjected to disturbances. This is to reduce the number of data...
This paper presents dynamic voltage collapse prediction on an actual power system using support vector machines. Dynamic voltage collapse prediction is first determined based on the PTSI calculated from information in dynamic simulation output. Simulations were carried out on a practical 87 bus test system by considering load increase as the contingency. The data collected from the time domain simulation...
This paper presents transient stability assessments of a large actual power system using the least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) with enhanced feature selection method. The investigated large power system is divided into five smaller areas depending on the coherency of the areas when subjected to disturbances. This is to reduce the amount of data sets collected for the respective areas....
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