Impact on Electrical Distribution Networks with The Integration of Shunt Capacitor Model Using Exhaustive Search Based Load Flow Algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents the effect on Electrical Distribution Networks (EDN) due to the integration of shunt capacitors. A shunt capacitor is installed in all buses of an EDN, individually, and its effect on voltage profile and power loss of EDN is explored. An appropriate novel mathematical model of a shunt capacitor is derived to integrate it into the EDN. Exhaustive search-based FBSLFA (Forward-backward sweep load flow algorithm) is used to integrate the shunt capacitor in EDN and to optimize the voltage profile and power loss of the network respectively. The strategy of the proposed work is implemented in IEEE-52 bus EDN. voltage profile and power loss of the EDN are enhanced and reduced appreciably respectively with the integration of a shunt capacitor at a few buses.