By Isabelle Heriakian / Published on Tue, 2009-08-04 09:03
Industrial facilities are source of major disturbances to power system due to more and more large power loads being installed that, apart of their good functional properties, are characterised by negative impact on the quality of power.
The adverse impact of non-linear loads on a power system can be mitigated by means of compensation equipment like fixed capacitor (FC), thyristor controlled reactor (TCR) - FC/TCR.
The purpose of FC/TCR compensator is compensation of the fundamental component reactive power and filtering selected current harmonics.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Wed, 2008-01-16 14:05
By M Paar et al
This article discusses the utilization of a modified genetic algorithm (GA) for the optimization of the shunt compensation in meshed and radial MV distribution networks.
The algorithm looks for minimum costs of the network power losses and minimum capital and operating costs of applied capacitors, all of this under limitations specified by a multicriteria penalization function. The parallel evolution branches in the GA are used for the purpose of the optimization acceleration.
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