SPRING SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR SIMULTANEOUS PLACEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND CAPACITORS

• Published in: Electronics and electromechanics no. 6; pp. 68 - 73
• Main Authors: Dehghani, M., Mardaneh, M., Montazeri, Z., Ehsanifar, A., Ebadi, M.J., Grechko, O. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kharkiv Department of Electrical Apparatus of National Technical University, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute 01.01.2018; National Technical University, Ukraine; National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; capacitor placement; Capacitors; Data buses; DG placement; Distributed generation; Distributed generation (Electric power); distribution network; Electric potential; Installation; Measurement; Methods; Optimization; Optimization theory; Placement; Radial distribution; Search algorithms; sensitive index; SSA; two-stage simultaneous placement
• ISSN: 2074-272X; 2309-3404; 2309-3404
• DOI: 10.20998/2074-272X.2018.6.10

Purpose. In this paper, for simultaneous placement of distributed generation (DG) and capacitors, a new approach based on Spring Search Algorithm (SSA), is presented. This method is contained two stages using two sensitive index Sv and Ss. Sv and Ss are calculated according to nominal voltage and network losses. In the first stage, candidate buses are determined for installation DG and capacitors according to Sv and Ss, Then in the second stage, placement and sizing of distributed generation and capacitors are specified using SSA. The spring search algorithm is among the optimization algorithms developed by the idea of laws of nature and the search factors are a set of objects. The proposed algorithm is tested on 33-bus and 69-bus radial distribution networks. The test results indicate good performance of the proposed method.