This paper presents a Modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm to obtein the optimal number and location of FACTS devices in a power system. Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) has great flexibility that can control the active and reactive power flow and bus voltages, simultaneously. Decoupled model of the UPFC is applied to maximize the system loadability subject to the transmission line capa...

With the introduction of competition in the existing electrical market, it becomes necessary to enhance the transmission capacity of the power system through the existing transmission lines. The utilization of FACTS technologies can have significant impact on power system reliability. Low cost and feasibly better improvement can be achieved by using power electronics based devices in the system...

The UPFC can provide simultaneous control of all basic power system parameters ( transmission voltage, impedance and phase angle). The controller can fulfill functions of reactive shunt compensation, series compensation and phase shifting meeting multiple control objectives. From a functional perspective, the objectives are met by applying a boosting transformer injected voltage and a exciting ...

In some decades, the demand for electrical power has increased but the generation and transmission remained limited due to limited resources and environmental restrictions. The increased demand for electrical power has also increased the complexity in the transmission system. It resulted in the form of the question of stability of power system. Here the stability of power system with possible m...

Abstract—The Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology is a new advanced solution that increases the reliability and provides more flexibility, controllability, and stability of a power system. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), as the most versatile FACTS device for regulating power flow, is able to control respectively transmission line real power, reactive power, and node vol...

In this paper a hybrid method for improving the dynamic stability of the power system using UPFC is proposed. The novelty of the proposed method is combined performance of the Bat-inspired algorithm and Firefly Algorithm (FA), which provides improved searching ability, automatic subdivision and random reduction. Here, the bat-inspired algorithm optimizes the maximum power loss bus while the gen...

Optimal power flow (OPF) study is conducted on a power system to achieve one of the following objectives: cost/loss minimization or available transfer capability (ATC) calculation in a deregulated environment. Distributed generation (DG) is a small source of electric power conversion from nonconventional energy sources and Hybrid DGs which often the most cost-effective and reliable way to produ...

Enhancement of stability of the power system has been achieved by the application of Unified power flow controller (UPFC) device with an additional supplementary controller. This supplementary damping controller can be installed on any control channel of the UPFC inputs to implement the task of power oscillation damping (POD) controller. We have presented a comprehensive assessment and performe...

One of the best flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) is unified power flow controller (UPFC). As it gets more benefit from both real and reactive transfer, used in for controlling transmitted power. The UPFC controls on side system. When as well set tries to follow command by using proportional integral (PI) controller. But some systems PI controllers cannot produce proper due oscillations. ...

FACTS devices plays a significant role to control the power flow of power transmission system. In this paper, a hybrid PSO algorithm is proposed to optimize the location of UPFC in power system. The proposed hybrid PSO algorithm has solved the formulated multiobjective optimization problem. This paper, five objective function to be considered in the form of minimization such as the fast voltage...