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Optimal Placement of D-STATCOM for Reduction of

Power Loss and Improvement of Voltage Profile using
Power Stability and Power Loss Indices in a Radial
Distribution System
Publisher: IEEE
Published in 2019
By Helen Tsegay
ID NO: PGR/21840/13
Presentation Outlines

Introduction
Power loss index
Power stability index
Result and discussion
Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION
In the last few years, the distribution system has needed more
attention due to its significant role in power quality and planning.
 Voltage sag, voltage instability and voltage fluctuation are
common issues in distribution system.
 These lead to increase in losses, slow response time and
decrease in power flow.
 Power loss reduction is a major issue that needs to be addressed
from the consumer point of view to improve the overall efficiency
of power delivery.
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 Cont…
 Shunt capacitors and series voltage regulator are used for
resolving these issues and maintaining the voltages within
stability limits.
 But these have certain limitations like delayed response time,
inability of generation of continuous reactive power, presence of
oscillations in inductive circuits, etc.
 To overcome these issues, FACTS devices are extensively being
used nowadays.

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 Distribution Static Compensator (D-STATCOM)
It is a shunt connected voltage source converter which has several
advantages such as:
 Low harmonic production
 Small in size
 Low power losses and no resonance issues

Fig.1: Block diagram of DSTATCOM.

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Power Stability Index and Power Loss Index methods are used for
determining the optimal location of D-STATCOM.

Fig. 2: Single line diagram of IEEE 12 bus distribution system.

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 POWER LOSS INDEX (PLI)
The bus which has the highest magnitude value of PLI is selected
as a candidate bus for this method.
After reading the line and bus data of the radial distribution
system, the load flow analysis is performed to calculate the
voltages and the losses.
Power Loss Indices are calculated as:
P [i]  P
PLI [i]  min (1)
Pmax  P
min

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 POWER STABILITY INDEX (PSI)

 This index is developed after considering the line

parameters.
 If a given line i-j has the largest PSI magnitude, then
the device is placed on bus j.
 The value of PSI is calculated using the formula:
4 Rij ( Pl  Pg )
PSI [i] = (2)
(V [i]cos(   ))2

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 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
For base loading and double loading, the losses are acceptable and
the voltage profile is high, so considered triple loading condition.
a) Selection of Candidate Buses

Fig. 3: Power Loss Indices on different buses.

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 Bus 9 has been chosen as the candidate bus with greatest PLI value
with magnitude 1.00.

Fig.4: Power Stability Indices on different buses.

The highest value of PSI came in between buses 9 to 10, then we
consider bus 10 as the candidate bus with PSI magnitude of 0.1287.
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 Table-I: Summary of results for PLI and PSI selection criteria
with and with D-STATCOM.

Description Without D- PLI PSI

STATCOM selection selection

Candidate Bus ------ Bus 9 Bus 10

Active power loss (MW) 0.203746 0.075934 0.077982

Reactive power loss (MVAR) 0.079468 0.029449 0.030267

Minimum voltage (p.u) 0.8830 0.9478 0.9499

Reduction in (MW) 0 0.127812 0.125764

Reduction in (MVAR) 0 0.050019 0.049201

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 CONCLUSION

 After increasing the load up to 300% of the base load, losses

were increase and decrease the voltage profile across the buses.
 The PLI selection criteria proved itself better than the PSI
selection criteria in terms of reduction in power losses.
 The PSI selection criteria proved itself better than the PLI
selection criteria for improvement of voltage profile.

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