Main contribution of this work is improving transient stability by installing Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) in power systems. For do this, Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) has been selected. Also a novel structure has been suggested to improve classic Harmony Search algorithm and suggested improved Harmony Search (iHS) algorithm. This algorithm has been used to obtain UPFC paramet...

The loss minimization is a major role in Power System (PS) research. Transmission line losses in a PS can be reduced by Var compensation. After the establishment of power markets with transmission open access, the significance and use of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices for manipulating line power flows to relieve congestion and maximize the overall grid operation have been incr...

The paper presents an investigation in to the effect of neural network predictive control of UPFC on the transient stability performance of a multimachine power system. The proposed controller consists of a neural network model of the test system. This model is used to predict the future control inputs using the damped Gauss-Newton method which employs ‘backtracking’ as the line search method f...

The Refined Bacterial Foraging Optimization (RBFA) algorithm is biologically inspired computation technique which is inspired on foraging behavior of E-coli bacteria and its improved version of basic Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA). This paper illustrated how a proposed algorithm different from other social behavior algorithm for solving optimization problems especially in multi-objective ca...

This paper utilizes the application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) techniques to find the most appropriate locations of Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) with optimum cost of generation for loadability limit and minimum active power loss, while satisfying the power system constraints. Two objective functions are taken as the indexes of the system performance:...

Optimal Power Flow (OPF) has been widely used in power system operation and planning. This paper presents Differential Evolution (DE) method to solve optimal power flow in power system incorporating a powerful and versatile Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) device such as Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC). Unlike other FACTS devices, UPFC has a great flexibility that can control the a...

Unified power flow controllers (UPFCs) are FACTS devices which can fulfil multiple power-flow control objectives, such as the need for reactive shunt compensation, phase shifting and series compensation. However, as they are quite expensive, they are not widely used. In this paper, the potential of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) mode of operation using a PHE...

This paper presents an approach for designing Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) for damping low frequency oscillations in a power system. The problem of UPFC-based damping controller is formulated as an optimization problem according to the eigen value-based objective function comprising the damping factor, and the damping ratio of the un-damped elect...

In this paper we proposed an advanced Multi-level converters with ride through capability for unified power-flow controller (UPFC) applications, because of high power ratings Among all multilevel topologies, the three-level neutral-pointclamped (NPC) converter allows back-to-back connection as the UPFC shunt and series converters gives us better results. Besides the pulse widthmodulated (PWM) m...