A Novel Method of Load Flow for Radial Distribution Network to Minimise Losses

  NarinderSingh,  Prof. Rajni Bala

Load flow has always been a critical problem and has been approached by several researchers. The techniques like Newton Raphson and Gauss Siedel works well but has severe computational disadvantages. Since only two of the required four parameters are known, hence a load flow approach has to be implemented. This paper proposes a novel direct method to load flow for distribution systems using losses which saves computation power. The system has been simulated for constant power load considering losses. The methodology has been implemented on MATLAB R2013b and voltages of each bus is found out and real and reactive losses are calculated. Also the most sensitive node is found out. The results shows an improvement over traditional methods.

Keywords- Distribution network, load flow method, Direct method, reactive power

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1601002
Page Number(s) - 7-10
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  NarinderSingh,  Prof. Rajni Bala,   "A Novel Method of Load Flow for Radial Distribution Network to Minimise Losses", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 1, pp.7-10, January 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1601002.pdf