Abstract
In Radial Distribution Networks (RDNs), reactive power compensation is provided commonly through the installation of capacitor banks. Proper allocation of capacitors in the network can bring several advantages which include improvement of feeder voltage and significant power loss reduction which will then provide a good amount of savings in energy as well as cost reduction. The explained formulation is known as the Optimal Capacitor Placement (OCP) problem. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study and analyze different OCP problem formulations. The power membership function and voltage membership function of the fuzzy-based method has been used for the optimal location identification and with help of available sizes of the capacitor to minimize the annual cost of 9-bus RDN and voltage, improvement has been done. MATLAB coding has been used to simulate the test cases and the results obtained for different OCP problems have been compared.
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