Capacitors in power systems are generally used to supply reactive power to reduces losses and improvement of the voltage profile.The appropriate placement of capacitors is also important to ensure that system power losses and total capacitor costs can be reduced. This paper presents a new constraint objective cost function to maximize the net annual savings by minimizing real power loss and opt...

in practical situations, distribution network loads are the mixtures of residential, industrial, and commercial types. this paper presents a hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of shunt capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of different voltage-dependent load models. the algorithm is based on the combination of genetic algorithm (ga) and binary part...

This paper presents a new methodology using fuzzy and Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) for the placement of capacitors on the primary feeders of the radial distribution systems to reduce the power losses and to improve the voltage profile. A two-stage methodology is used for the optimal capacitor placement problem. In the first stage, fuzzy approach is used to find the optimal capacitor loca...

Network Feeder Reconfiguration is the process of altering the topological structure of distribution feeders by changing the open/closed status of the tie and sectionalizing switches. In this paper, the Network Reconfiguration problem will be formulated as multi objective optimization problem with equality and inequality constraints. The proposed solution is based on optimization algorithms know...

This paper describes an advantageous method for using the capacitor banks in the distribution network, optimally. The aim is to determine the count, location and capacitor values in order to minimize the annual cost resulting from energy losses and capacitor bank’s installation cost. Besides, in the case of having nonlinear loads in the network, by installing capacitors in appropriate locations...

Nowadays the research on the integration of DG's and Capacitor banks in radial distribution system is going on, to meet the increased electricity demand and to improve the technical aspects like power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement etc. , where the major concerns are finding the optimal sizing of DG's and Capacitor banks and their locations. This paper presents applicatio...