Simple and Fast Load Flow Solution for Electrical Power Distribution Systems

Abstract

The proposal of this paper is on a simple and fast distribution load flow solution algorithm. The proposed method fully exploits the radial structure of the network and solves the distribution load flow directly using the single dimension vectors. An effective data structure is proposed to identify lines and number of lines available beyond the particular line. Using this concept, power summations are calculated to obtain the distribution load flow solution. Unlike other traditional methods, the proposed method consider the effective convergence approach which is not only simple and fast but also is efficient from time perspective and needs very less memory for any size of the distribution system compared with the existing methods. The proposed concept was tested on standard distribution system and results are promising and have great potential for applications in the distribution automation.