Shunt capacitive compensation is one of the techniques used to improve the voltage profile of the system and reduce active power loss. In this paper Index Vector method is implemented for optimal capacitor placement on three phase unbalanced radial distribution system. Mutual inductance between the phases is taken into consideration for obtaining load flow solution of unbalanced distribution sy...

The voltage instability phenomena occur in both transmission systems and distribution systems. The weakening of voltage stability level will limit the growth of load served by distribution companies. Voltage instability in power distribution systems could lead to voltage collapse and thus power blackouts. The integration of distributed generation (DG) in the distribution system has increased to...

This paper presents a novel method for load flow analysis in radially operated 3-phase distribution networks without solving the well-known conventional load flow equations. The method can be applied for distribution systems in which the loads are unbalanced. As the size of matrix used is very small compared to those in conventional methods, the amount of memory used is very small, the speed is...

Uncertainty analysis of future system operation is the key feature of current study. This paper shows that how subjective differences in representing fuzzy inputs can affect the final outputs. We consider a confined range of forecasted samples in terms of fuzzy membership functions as well as the range of historical forecasting errors in terms of probability density functions. On this basis, th...

a water distribution network is subjected to various abnormal conditions such as pipe breaks, pump failures, excessive demands etc. in the design period. under such conditions, the network may not be able to meet required demands at desired pressures, and becomes deficient. traditional network analysis assumes nodal demands to be satisfied and available nodal pressures are calculated. however, ...

abstract in this paper, a fuzzy pid with new structure is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. in this study, a new structure and effective of the fuzzy pid-type load frequency control (lfc) is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. the main objective is to eliminate the deviations in the frequency of different area...

the existence of some geometrically imperfect members, like initial curvature in a double layer space structures with hundreds or thousands of members is almost inevitable. these imperfections give rise to loss of load bearing capacity of double layer space structures. to evaluate the effect of initial member imperfection on load bearing capacity of double layer space structures and their failu...

the microgrid concept provides attractive solutions for reliability enhancement of power distribution systems. normally, microgrids contain renewable-energy-based distributed generation (dg) units, which their output power varies with different environmental conditions. in addition, load demand usually changes with factors such as hourly and seasonal customer activities. hence, these issues hav...