Power Research

Tejas Vyas ¹, Ranjit Roy ²

Affiliations
1 Manager, Essar Steel India Ltd., Surat Hazira Road, Hazira – 394270, Gujarat, IN
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat-395007, IN

Abstract

This paper presents a simple method for fi nding the optimal DG size and optimal DG location in distribution network. By using this method, optimal DG capacity and location are determined considering without network reconfi guration and with network reconfi guration. The method is tested with three test cases: 33-node, 69-node and 117-node IEEE standard network. Result shows that the proposed method is very effi cient and competitive with the existing methods available in the literature.

Keywords

Optimal istributed generator (DG), Distribution network reconfi guration, Loss minimization by reconfi guration, Reconfi guration algorithm, 117-bus network

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Tejas Vyas ¹, Ranjit Roy ²

Affiliations
1 Manager, Essar Steel India Ltd, 27th km, Surat Hazira Road, Hazira - 394270, Gujarat, IN
2 Associate Prof., Department of Electrical Engineering, SVNIT, Surat - 395007, Gujarat, IN

Abstract

The paper presents the simple method for finding the load flow solution of a radial distribution network using the Kirchoff's current and Kirchoff's voltage law. The method is tested on four test cases: 16-node, 33-node, 69-node and 117-node network. Comparing to the existing methods, the memory space requirement is very small and time required for the CPU execution is also lower. Result shows that the proposed method is very efficient and competitive with the existing methods.

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