TY - JOUR
T1 - Wild Goats Optimization Approach for Capacitor Placement Problem
AU - Teimourzadeh, Hamid
AU - Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Behnam
AU - Farzamnia, Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors appreciate those who contributed to make this research successful. This research is under support of Center for Research and Innovation (PPI) and Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).
Publisher Copyright:
© Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Publisher's Office.
PY - 2019/9/5
Y1 - 2019/9/5
N2 - This paper deals with Capacitor Placement (CP) issue. The topic is an optimization problem including two types of variables: capacitor location as an integer variable, capacitor size as a continuous one. To cope with this problem, a new approach entitled Wild Goats Algorithm (WGA) is used. WGA is a new heuristic approach which has been proved recently. In this paper, WGA is successfully implemented to the CP problem with the objective of total loss reduction. Power flow criteria as well as operation constraints are all together accommodated in the process of optimization. Two various scenarios at three load levels are also recognized to cover all possible conditions. The validity of the WGA approach in handling CP problem is assured by testifying it on IEEE 33-bus and 69-bus test systems.
AB - This paper deals with Capacitor Placement (CP) issue. The topic is an optimization problem including two types of variables: capacitor location as an integer variable, capacitor size as a continuous one. To cope with this problem, a new approach entitled Wild Goats Algorithm (WGA) is used. WGA is a new heuristic approach which has been proved recently. In this paper, WGA is successfully implemented to the CP problem with the objective of total loss reduction. Power flow criteria as well as operation constraints are all together accommodated in the process of optimization. Two various scenarios at three load levels are also recognized to cover all possible conditions. The validity of the WGA approach in handling CP problem is assured by testifying it on IEEE 33-bus and 69-bus test systems.
KW - Capacitor placement
KW - Optimization problem
KW - Wild goats algorithm
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U2 - 10.30880/ijie.2019.11.04.004
DO - 10.30880/ijie.2019.11.04.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074698786
VL - 11
SP - 31
EP - 39
JO - International Journal of Integrated Engineering
JF - International Journal of Integrated Engineering
SN - 2229-838X
IS - 4
ER -
