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Abstract—Voltage security is a crucial issue in power STATCOM devices in the power system. Particularly,it is
systems especially under heavily loaded condition. In the new desired to determine their optimal location and capacity.
scheme of restructuring, voltage stability problem becomes Traditional optimization methods such as mixed integer
even more serious. To solve the problem, we integrate reactive
linear and non linear programming have been investigated to
address this issue; however difficulties arise due to multiple
power compensation concept by Static Synchronous
local minima and overwhelming computational effort. In
Compensator (STATCOM) with Equivalent – current Injection
order to overcome these problems, Evolutionary
(ECI). We derive a new STATCOM with ECI model. This
Computation Techniques have been employed to solve the
paper shows the application of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
optimal allocation of FACTS devices. This study, which
plus Genetic Algorithms (GA) for optimal capacity and location uses the Genetic algorithms (GA), has been tested for
of a new STATCOM with ECI model in a power system. Finally finding the optimal location and capacity, with promising
simulation shows the optimal location and capacity of new results [3].
STATCOM with ECI model to enhance power system voltage This paper applied the ability of the GA operated after
stability by using GACO. The proposed method demonstrates can promote the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) efficiency.
the improvement of voltage stability margin. The objective of GA is to improve the searching quality of
ants by optimizing themselves to generate a better result,
Keywords: Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, because the ants produced randomly by pheromone process
voltage stability, Static Synchronous Compensator are not necessary better. This method can not only enhance
(STATCOM), Equivalent -Current-Injection (ECI) the neighborhood search, but can also search the optimum
solution quickly to advance convergence. [1] [4].
I. INTRODUCTION The load flow analysis (commonly called load flow or
power flow) is the basic tool for investigating power system
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shunt (coupling) transformer, voltage source converter B. STATCOM with ECI
(VSC), and capacitor. The reactive power is distributed in The STATCOM can act as on equivalent voltage source
the power system by the converter control [6~7]. series reactance. Voltage source can transform the current
source by way of Norton Theorem as shown in Fig. 2.
g ij + jbij Ij Vj
Vi ∠θi
Fig. 2 Transmission line equivalent model shunt STATCOM equivalent
Vs ∠θ s circuit diagram
where Vi∠θi : are the bus voltage and its phase angle of I j = (V j − Vi )( gij + jbij ) + jbcV j (4)
power system.
Vs∠θs : is the STATCOM voltage and its phase angle.
where V i = V i c o s θ i + j V i s in θ i
The SATCOM active P and reactive power Q are shown V j = V j cos θ j + j V j sin θ j
in (1) and (2).
VsVi
P= sin δ (1) Polar to Cartesian coordinate transformation is used in (5)
Xs
2 VV e + jf = V cos θ + j V sin θ (5)
V s i
Q= s − cos δ (2)
Xs Xs
where e : is the bus voltage real-part
where Xs : is coupling transformer equivalent reactance f : is the bus voltage imaginary-part
δ : θ s − θi Therefore I ivr , I j can be rewritten as show in (6) and (7)
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We can obtain the new admittance matrix and equivalent
injection current with the relations shown in (8).
new
I = YmatrixV (8)
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TABLE II where
CANDIDATE BUS ai, bi, ci: fuel cost coefficients of thermal plant
Bus 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 Vi : voltage magnitude at bus
Bus 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ei , f i : Real and imaginary part of voltage Vi at bus i
PGi : Dispatchable active power at bus i
(i, j ) : Transmission line connecting buses i and j
S ij2 , S 2ji : Apparent power of transmission line (i,j) or (j,i)
S L2,ij , S L2, ji : Apparent power limit of transmission line (i,j) or
(j,i) , where S L2,ij = S L2, ji .
Vsm: The STATCOM voltage Vs at candidate bus m
θsm: The phase angle of STATCOM at candidate bus m
V. SIMULATION RESULTS
NG
Min f(PGi ) = ∑ ai PGi + bi PGi + c (9)
2
i =1
subject to
- I spec
r + I cal
r =0
spec cal
- I i + I i =0 (10)
- P + P + P cal = 0
G 2 Load 2
- VG + V cal = 0
S 2 ≤ S 2L ,ij
ij Fig. 4 The 30-bus test system
2
S ji2 ≤ S L ,ij
(11) TABLE III
PGi ≤ PGi ≤ PGi
V 2 ≤ (e 2 + f 2 ) ≤ V 2 SOLUTION FOUND BY GACO
i i i i
STATCOM Location Capacity
VSm ≤ VSm ≤ VSm Unit (Bus number) (MVA)
1 18 51.613
θ Sm ≤ θ Sm ≤ θ Sm
2 27 24.165
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TABLE V
The best solution is found by inserting STATCOM at ITERATIONS AND CPU TIMES BY GACO
GACO GA EP
bus 18 and bus 27. The power flow results, the voltage Tine(s) Max_time(s) 869 712 1169
comparison with and without STATCOM is show in Fig. 5 Min_time(s) 95 51 122
and Table IV. Table V show the comparison of GACO, GA Avg_time(s) 420 583 506
and EP. The system without the STATCOM has 17 buses CPUtime/count 18.4 18.33 16.96
with voltage below 0.95 p.u.. Once the STATCOM units are Cost Worst 774.7703 774.8686 775.5145
($/h) Best 774.7575 774.7575 774.7575
connected to buses 18 and 27 the voltage is improved. Average 774.7580 774.7600 774.7732
Count Max_count 44 39 69
Min_count 4 2 6
Voltage Comparison Avg_count 23.14 31.82 29.86
1.2
1
Additionally, In order to study the effect of the load
conditions in the optimal solution found by the GACO,
0.8
simulations are carried out by changing the load in each load
0.6 center in a range from 30% to 90%.
V
0.4 The Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are the with and without
0.2
STATCOM voltage comparison for different load. In Fig. 6
and Fig. 7 is registered again a voltage improvement.
0
10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30
Bus
Voltage Comparison
without STATCOM
1.2
with STATCOM
1
Fig.5 Voltage comparison
0.8
TABLE IV
BUS VOLTAGE FROM POWER FLOW RESULT V 0.6
Bus Voltage p.u. w/o Voltage p.u. with
number STATCOM units STATCOM units 0.4
10 0.93760 0.99402
0.2
14 0.92612 0.98576
15 0.91577 0.99541 0
16 0.93683 0.98307 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30
without STATCOM
17 0.92725 0.98056
Bsu with STATCOM
18 0.89363 1.05500
19 0.88846 1.01710 Fig. 6 Voltage comparison for 30% load
20 0.89860 1.00930
21 0.88873 0.96099
Voltage Comparison
22 0.89516 0.96705
23 0.89802 0.98157 1.2
24 0.89414 0.98194 1
25 0.89148 1.01800
0.8
26 0.85369 0.98311
27 0.90785 1.05700 0.6
V
29 0.85377 1.00760
0.4
30 0.82140 0.97714
0.2
0
9 10 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30
Bus without STATCOM
with STATCOM
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The results obtained by the different load conditions are VI. CONCLUSIONS
shown in Table V and Table VI. Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 illustrate
the relationship between the different load conditions. From The paper has demonstrated the application of GACO
Table VI and Table VII, the capacity of the STATCOM does for location and capacity of STATCOM with ECI model in a
change under different load condition. power system considering at each bus the voltage constraints.
The study is carried out for the aim of voltage security
TABLE VI margin enhancement. Simulation results through an IEEE
LOCATION AND CAPACITY OF FIRST STATCOM FOR DIFFRTRNT 30bus validate the efficiency of the optimal location and
LOAD CONDITIONS capacity of STATCOM with the ECI model. The result
Load (%) Location (Bus) Capacity (MVA) shows the significantly voltage stability enhancement.
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