The advantage of this method involves controlling the flow of current through all the connections – especially those used to measure the voltage. The measurement current flows through one set of connections, usually those that are farthest apart. If these connections are resistive (i.e., the connections are poor) there will be significant voltage drop across them. However, this voltage drop doe...

− In recent years the problem of harmonic pollution has become more urgent, because of the development in distribution systems of non linear loads that draw non-sinusoidal currents. This paper presents a time domain method for harmonics sources detection in power systems, which can be usefully applied also in presence of unbalance or asymmetry. Harmonic power flows are calculated in real time a...

For the continuous evaluation of the performance of the power system, power flow solutions are essential for exhibiting suitable control actions in case of requirement. This case study presents analysis of the electrical power system of continuous process plant having its own captive generation along with the provision of the Grid connectivity. The different power system elements are modeled as...

This paper presents modeling and control of a hybrid distributed energy sources including photovoltaic (PV), fuel cell (FC) and battery energy storage (BES) in a microgrid which provides both real and reactive power to support an unbalanced utility grid. The overall configuration of the microgrid including dynamic models for the PV, FC, BES and its power electronic interfacing are briefly descr...

This two-part paper details a theory of solvability for the power flow equations in lossless power networks. In Part I, we derive a new formulation of the lossless power flow equations, which we term the fixed-point power flow. The model is stated for both meshed and radial networks, and is parameterized by several graph-theoretic matrices – the power network stiffness matrices – which quantify...

In this paper, a combinational optimization algorithm is introduced to obtain the best size and location of Static Compensator (STATCOM) in power systems. Its main contribution is considering contingency analysis where lines outages may lead to infeasible solutions especially at peak loads and it commonly can be vanished by load-shedding. The objective of the proposed algorithm is firstly to pr...

In a de-regulated open access environment, reactive power is one of the ancillary services which must be provided by an Independent System Operator (ISO). In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed in which reactive power resources are initially so tuned that optimum security in terms of voltage profile and voltage stability are achieved while at the same time, the system losses are minimized. ...