distributed generations (dgs) are utilized to supply the active and reactive power in the transmission and distribution systems. these types of power sources have many benefits such as power quality enhancement, voltage deviation reduction, power loss reduction, load shedding reduction, reliability improvement, etc. in order to reach the above benefits, the optimal placement and sizing of dg is...

This paper presents a new control method for simultaneous compensation of instantaneous reactive power and current harmonics by parallel active filters (PAFs). Reference compensating currents of PAF are calculated using the subtraction of instantaneous power from its average value. In this way, it is possible omitting high/low pass filter(s) from the control circuit of PAF, which usually result...

In islanded ac microgrids, the mismatched impedances of interfacing feeders between inverters and load bus cause poor reactive power sharing when conventional frequency voltage droop control technique is employed. Such operation endangers whole microgrid reliability as it may lead to overloading certain and, consequently, triggering protection relays causing cascaded failure. Thus, this article...

This paper presents a powerful approach to find the optimal size and location of distributed generation units in a distribution system using Genetic Optimization algorithm (GA). The total active and reactive power losses are minimized and voltage profile is improved. GA fitness function is introduced including the active power losses, reactive power losses and the cumulative voltage deviation v...

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. ...

this paper presents a grid connected photovoltaic system, which acts as both power generator and active power filter (apf), based on flying capacitor multicell (fcm) converter. increase in the number of output voltage levels, natural self-balancing of flying capacitors and dc link voltage and lower power rating of components are the main futures of fcm converter compared with conventional multi...

load modeling is widely used in power system studies. two types of modeling, namely, static and dynamic, are employed. the current industrial practice is the static modeling. static modelss are algebraic equations of active and reactive power changes in terms of voltage and frequency deviations. in this paper, a component based on static modeling is employed in which the aggregate model is deri...

The main purposes of a transformerless grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system consist of the reduction of leakage current, extraction of maximum power point (MPP), tracking of MPP (MPPT), controlling the active and reactive powers, and having the unity power factor. To achieve the above-mentioned aims, the following actions have been performed in this paper. First of all, a brief analysis of t...

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. ...