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Optimal Selection of Voltage Control Areas Using Seeker Algorithm

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Secondary voltage control is used to readjust the reference values of automatic voltage regulators. The location of pilot load buses has an important role in the performance of secondary voltage control. In this paper, a seeker algorithm is used for optimal selection of pilot nodes. In the proposed seeker technique, based on the act of human searching, the search direction and related step length are determined in an adaptive way. The performance of the proposed method is verified over IEEE 118-Bus transmission test network.

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Abbreviations

N g :

Number of generators or dynamic Var devices

N l :

Number of load buses

N p :

Number of pilot nodes

N s :

Number of scenarios

π c :

Probability of occurrence of cth scenario

Δ Q G :

Vector of reactive power generation perturbations

Δ Q L :

Vector of reactive power load perturbations

Δ V L :

Voltage deviation at load buses

Δ V P :

Voltage deviation at pilot nodes

Δ V G :

Voltage deviation at generator stations

P :

Binary pilot node matrix denotes the location of pilot nodes amongload buses

PI c :

Performance index for cth scenario

K svc :

Gain of linear feedback controller to maintain voltage magnitudes at pilot nodes

D ij :

Electrical distance between node i and j

R :

Weighting factor to merit voltage control at some loadbuses

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Karimiyan Mohammadabadi, M. Optimal Selection of Voltage Control Areas Using Seeker Algorithm. Arab J Sci Eng 39, 2997–3004 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-013-0905-6

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