Optimum shunt capacitor placement in distribution system—A review and comparative study

MM Aman, GB Jasmon, AHA Bakar, H Mokhlis… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Shunt capacitors are commonly used in distribution system for reactive power
compensation. Different analytical, numerical programming, heuristic and artificial intelligent …

Loss minimization techniques for optimal operation and planning of distribution systems: A review of different methodologies

KS Sambaiah, T Jayabarathi - International Transactions on …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In an electrical power system, the generated power is transferred through a high voltage
transmission system, and it reaches the low voltage consumers at the distribution side. In a …

Optimal capacitor placement in radial distribution system using gravitational search algorithm

YM Shuaib, MS Kalavathi, CCA Rajan - International Journal of Electrical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Power generated in generating station is transmitted through transmission lines and fed to
the consumers through distribution substation. The power distributed into the network has …

Optimal placement of capacitors in radial distribution system using a Fuzzy-GA method

D Das - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2008 - Elsevier
The paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) based fuzzy multi-objective approach for
determining the optimum values of fixed and switched shunt capacitors to improve the …

Optimal location and sizing of capacitor placement in radial distribution system using bacterial foraging optimization algorithm

KR Devabalaji, K Ravi, DP Kothari - … Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study introduces a new long term scheduling for optimal allocation of capacitor bank in
radial distribution system with the objective of minimizing power loss of the system subjected …

Optimal capacitor placement in a radial distribution system using plant growth simulation algorithm

RS Rao, SVL Narasimham, M Ramalingaraju - International journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new and efficient approach for capacitor placement in radial
distribution systems that determine the optimal locations and size of capacitor with an …

Capacitor placement in distribution systems for power loss reduction and voltage improvement: a new methodology

A Askarzadeh - IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
For compensating reactive power, shunt capacitors are often installed in electrical
distribution networks. Consequently, in such systems, power loss reduces, voltage profile …

Direct search algorithm for capacitive compensation in radial distribution systems

MR Raju, KVSR Murthy, K Ravindra - … Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper a new algorithm is proposed to determine the optimal sizes of fixed and
switched capacitors together with their optimal locations in a radial distribution system so …

Operation of distribution network with optimal placement and sizing of dispatchable DGs and shunt capacitors

S Das, D Das, A Patra - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a methodology for sustainable operation of the distribution network with
optimal placement and sizing of dispatchable DGs and shunt capacitors. The objective of …

Optimal capacitor allocations using evolutionary algorithms

AA El‐Fergany - IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the implementation of integrated evolutionary algorithms based for
solving the capacitor placement optimisation problem with reduced annual operating cost …