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Optimal switching device placement in radial distribution systems

1996; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/61.517529

1937-4208

R. Billinton, S. Jonnavithula,

Electric Power System Optimization

This paper presents a new formulation for power system sectionalizing device placement taking into consideration outage, maintenance and investments costs. The formulation of sectionalizing switches is a combinatorial constrained optimization problem with a nonlinear, nondifferentiable objective function. A solution methodology based on the optimization technique of simulated annealing, is proposed to determine: (i) the number of sectionalizing switches; and (ii) the locations of the switches. The proposed solution methodology can offer a global optimal solution for the sectionalizing device placement problem which includes the reliability, investment and maintenance costs.