Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch Adaptive
Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch Adaptive
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Figure 1. Flow chart of AGA algorithm for optimal reactive power dispatch
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sum of fitness distance by (n ¹ 1)maxj lfi ¹ fj l: evaluated on the IEEE 30-bus power system which is shown
X in Figure 2. The system data and operating conditions are
n
j ¼ 1 lfi ¹ fj l given in Appendix A. The network consists of 48 branches,
C̃(fi ) ¼ , i Þ j: (10)
(n ¹ 1)maxj lfi ¹ fj l six generator-buses and 20 load-buses. Four branches, (6,9),
(6,10), (4,12) and (27,28), are under load tap setting trans-
so that C̃(f i) is limited to the interval (0,1). It has been found former branches. The possible reactive power source instal-
effective to employ C̃(f i) to regulate the mutation operator. lation buses are 3, 10 and 24. Six buses are selected as PV-
When C̃(f i) is large, the chromosome is largely deviated from buses and Vv bus as follows: PV-buses: bus 2, 5, 8, 11, 13. Vv
the population, so we should mutate the chromosome with a bus: bus 1. The others are PQ-buses. The variable limits are
higher probability. This can be done by setting the given in Table 1. The transformer taps and the reactive
probability of mutation as: power source installation are discrete variables with the
(
k2 (fmax ¹ fi )C̃(fi )=(fmax ¹ f̄ ), fi . f̄ change step of 0.02 and 0.01 p.u., respectively.
pm ¼ (11) The system loads are given as follows:
k4 , fi # f̄
Pload ¼ 2:834 p:u: Qload ¼ 1:0445 p:u:
In equations (7) and (11), high-fitness solutions are pro-
tected, while solutions with subaverage fitnesses are totally The initial generator bus voltages and transformer taps are
disrupted. This adaptive strategy can prevent premature set to 1.0. The total generations and power losses are
convergence and speed up the convergence rate of GAs. obtained as follows:
PGS ¼ 2:893857 p:u: QGS ¼ 0:980199 p:u:
optimum dispatch solution. In addition, the results summar- feature of robust computation. From the simulation study, it
ized in Table 6 show that the proposed AGA is about three has been found that the AGA converges to the global
times faster than CGA in speed. The optimization search optimum.
procedures by the AGA and CGA is shown in Figure 3. It can
be seen that, by using the adaptive probabilities of crossover
and mutation, the iterations for convergence can be reduced VI. Nomenclature
greatly. In both of the optimization procedures, all the bus
voltages are inside the limits. v ij voltage angle difference between buses i and j
(rad)
B ij transfer susceptance between bus i and j (p.u.)
V. Conclusion fQ active power loss in network (p.u.)
An adaptive genetic algorithm has been developed for G ij transfer conductance between bus i and j (p.u.)
determination of the global or near-global optimum solution gk conductance of branch k (p.u.)
for optimal reactive power dispatch and voltage control of N0 set of numbers of total buses excluding slack bus
power systems. In the adaptive genetic algorithm, the prob- NB set of numbers of total buses
abilities of crossover and mutation, p c and p m, are varied NC set of numbers of possible reactive power source
depending on the fitness values of the solutions and the installation buses
normalized fitness distances between the solutions. By this ND set of numbers of power demand buses
approach, the simulated-annealling-like strategy used in Ref. NE set of numbers of network branches
[7] has been replaced, which is relative to the reproduction NG set of numbers of generator buses
numbers in the evolutionary process. The performance of the Ni set of numbers of buses adjacent to bus i,
proposed algorithm demonstrated through its evaluation on including bus i
the IEEE 30-bus power system shows that the AGA is able to N PQ set of numbers of PQ buses
undertake global search with a fast convergence rate and a N PV set of numbers of PV buses
NQlim set of numbers of buses on which injected reactive
power outside limits
Table 6. Shortest and longest execution time by AGA and NT set of numbers of transformer branches
CGA NVlim set of numbers of buses on which voltages outside
Method Shortest Longest Average limits
execution execution execution P Di demanded active power at bus i (p.u.)
time (s) time (s) time (s) P Gi injected active power at bus i (p.u.)
Pkloss active power loss in branch k (p.u.)
AGA 50.72 57.98 54.28 Ps injected active power at slack bus (p.u.)
CGA 148.37 162.49 156.34 Q Ci reactive power source installation at bus i (p.u.)
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