PE 351

Power System Analysis

Lecture10: Power Flow Equations,
G-S Method

Dr. Shahid Alam

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering
Sciences and Technology
s.alam@giki.edu.pk
Power Flow Equations

o When analyzing power systems we know neither the

complex bus voltages nor the complex current
injections
o Rather, we know the complex power being consumed
by the load, and the power being injected by the
generators plus their voltage magnitudes
o Therefore we can not directly use the Ybus equations,
but rather must use the power balance equations

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Power Flow Equations

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Power Flow Equations

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Power Flow Equations

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Power Flow Equations

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Observations on the sign of real and
reactive powers

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Analysis of Power Flow Equations

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Classification of Buses

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Analysis of Power Flow Equations

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Solution Methods for Power Flow Problem

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Gauss-Seidel Algorithm

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Gauss-Seidel Algorithm: Example

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Gauss-Seidel Algorithm: Example

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Gauss-Seidel Algorithm Applied to Power Flow

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Gauss-Seidel Algorithm Applied to Power Flow

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