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Smart Inter-Phase Switching of Residential Loads in Low Voltage Distribution Feeders

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In order to dynamically reduce voltage unbalance along a low voltage distribution feeder, a smart residential load transfer system is discussed. In this scheme, residential loads can be transferred from one phase to another to minimize the voltage unbalance along the feeder. Each house is supplied through a static transfer switch and a controller. The master controller, installed at the transformer, observes the power consumption in each house and will determine which house(s) should be transferred from an initially connected phase to another in order to keep the voltage unbalance minimum. The performance of the smart load transfer scheme is demonstrated by simulations.

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  1. Center of Smart Grid and Sustainable Power Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Farhad Shahnia

  2. Power and Energy Center, School of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia

    Peter Wolfs

  3. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Arindam Ghosh

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    Zeashan H Khan

  2. School of Engineering and Technology, CQ University, North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

    A. B. M. Shawkat Ali

  3. Fraunhofer Institute, Bonn, Germany

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Shahnia, F., Wolfs, P., Ghosh, A. (2014). Smart Inter-Phase Switching of Residential Loads in Low Voltage Distribution Feeders. In: Khan, Z., Ali, A., Riaz, Z. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Decision Support in Cyber-Physical Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 540. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-36-1_11

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