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Power Quality Improvement by Capacitor Placement in a Reconfigured Electric Distribution Network Using Improved Artificial Bee Colony |
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PP: 209-216 |
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doi:10.18576/jrna/100301
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A. Saleh,
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Abstract |
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| The distribution system that feeds electric power to a nuclear facility must have higher power quality and a reliable network design to carry loads. Distribution networks face significant problems, including voltage drop and power losses, which can cause malfunction for electrical nuclear instrumentation. Optimal capacitor placement and reconfiguration of the distribution network are two essential methods to solve these problems. While reconfiguration optimizes network topology, capacitor placement compensates for the reactive power, their combined implementation results in superior performance in voltage profile improvement, power loss reduction, and overall system reliability. This paper proposes an optimization technique based on an improved artificial bee colony algorithm for mathematical modelling of optimal capacitor allocation in the reconfigured distribution network problem. The proposed approach is demonstrated by using IEEE standard distribution networks to check the accuracy and reliability. Results show that considering capacitor placement and network reconfiguration simultaneously improves the voltage profile and effectively minimizes power losses. |
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