Reactive power loss control in power flow controller using Adaptive learning

Abstract: Recently Voltage stability issues have gained significant attention, due to voltage instability incidents. Voltage instability is the progressive and uncontrollable fall or rise of the voltage at some buses of the system which affects mainly reactive power increment. Voltage stability issues include the reactive power loss compensation techniques. In this paper a hybrid model of decision making based on two algorithms namely Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithm based implementation is proposed. The optimization problem is defined by obtaining the optimal locations of the Var compensators and to minimize the total reactive power loss in a power system network. The simulation observation illustrates an improvement in relative loss compensation in comparison to existing models.

Keywords: Power flow controller, swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, adaptive learning.