Kubera U
2SD15EPS05
Prof. C M Chelli
SDMCET Dharwad
Contents
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Objective
• Methodology
• References
Introduction
• The day to day increase in load demand, the power systems across the
world are being forced to operate their existing equipments closer to
their stability limits (i.e. maximum capacities).
• The loss reduction obtained with the use of SVC helps to reduce the total
power generation and hence, contributes to the generation cost savings.
• The weak bus locations of a system can be identified with the help of the
various available voltage stability indices such as Lmn , FVSI , LQP.
Literature Review
1. “Maintaining Voltage Stability in Power System using FACTS Devices”
FACTS devices are helpful for maintaining voltage stability during load variation.
With ever increasing demand of power, optimum use of existing power infrastructure is
must. FACTS devices provide enormous opportunity for optimized usage of existing
infrastructure with usage of power system near its stability limit. Identification of weak bus
is considered through voltage collapse proximity index (VCPI).
2. “Voltage Profile Improvement &Loss Reduction Using Optimal allocation of SVC”
The optimal placement of SVC has been carried out using the 4 major objective
functions ‘T ’, VPII , ΔPL% and ΔQ L% together into consideration. In order to reduce the
computation time required to determine the optimal location, the performance of SVC is
analyzed only at the 4 weak bus locations (which could be found out using FVSI ) of IEEE
14 bus system at 150% loading. The required recovery time ‘T ’ is found to be lower when
SVC is connected at 13 14 and 9. As bus no. 14 gives the best result for all the 4 objective
functions, it is selected as the optimal location for the placement of SVC.
3. “Optimal Placement and Sizing of SVC for Loss Minimization and Voltage
Security Improvement using Differential Evolution Algorithm”
DE algorithm has been implemented for finding the optimal solution which
includes sizing and placement of SVC for loss minimization and improvement of
voltage security considering the cost of SVC during single line outage contingencies.
For optimal placement of SVC under various critical outage contingencies, different
optimal locations were obtained. For enhancement of voltage security in a power
system additionally more than one SVC located at optimum location are required. The
results evidently reveal the efficiency of DE algorithm for solving large-scale
optimization problems of power systems.