Shunt capacitors are commonly used in distribution system for reactive power
compensation. Different analytical, numerical programming, heuristic and artificial intelligent …

This paper presents teaching learning based optimization (TLBO) approach to minimize
power loss and energy cost by optimal placement of capacitors in radial distribution systems …

Power generated in generating station is transmitted through transmission lines and fed to
the consumers through distribution substation. The power distributed into the network has …

Normally consumers faced so many power interruption problems in the power distribution
network. The distribution network is interrupted because of the power loss problems occurs …

This paper presents a method to find the optimal size and place of the switched capacitors
using a hybrid optimization algorithm. The objective function includes the active and reactive …

This paper aims at adopting the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique to find the
near-optimal solutions for the capacitor allocation problem in distribution systems for the …

With regard to widespread use of distributed generation in distribution network, its technical
impacts in distribution network should be thoroughly analyzed. In this paper simultaneous …

Capacitors in radial/mesh distribution systems are used to supply reactive power to minimize
loss and to improve the voltage profile. The appropriate placement of capacitors is also …

Abstract Effect of network reconfiguration on power quality issues of distribution system has
been investigated. The problem of network reconfiguration is reformulated with an objective …

This paper presents an algorithm for reconfiguration associated with capacitor allocation to
minimize energy losses on radial electrical networks considering different load levels. The …