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OPTIMAL ALLOCATION OF SVC TO IMPROVE

VOLTAGE PROFILE AND LOSS REDUCTION
By

Kubera U
2SD15EPS05

Under the Guidance of

Prof. C M Chelli
SDMCET Dharwad
 Contents
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Objective
• Methodology
• References
 Introduction
• The day to day increase in load demand, the power systems across the
world are being forced to operate their existing equipments closer to
their stability limits (i.e. maximum capacities).

• An increase in loading of the system causes an increased shortage of real

and reactive power of the system, which in turn causes a fall in the bus
voltages.

• The problem of voltage instability in the highly loaded networks can be

mitigated to some extent by the use of shunt compensating FACTS
devices like Static Var Compensators, STATCOM etc.
• The use of SVC is a useful method of mitigation of voltage instability,
but, installation of this device at any random location in the network may
not give satisfactory results.

• The loss reduction obtained with the use of SVC helps to reduce the total
power generation and hence, contributes to the generation cost savings.

• The weak bus locations of a system can be identified with the help of the
various available voltage stability indices such as Lmn , FVSI , LQP.
 Literature Review
1. “Maintaining Voltage Stability in Power System using FACTS Devices”
FACTS devices are helpful for maintaining voltage stability during load variation.
With ever increasing demand of power, optimum use of existing power infrastructure is
must. FACTS devices provide enormous opportunity for optimized usage of existing
infrastructure with usage of power system near its stability limit. Identification of weak bus
is considered through voltage collapse proximity index (VCPI).
2. “Voltage Profile Improvement &Loss Reduction Using Optimal allocation of SVC”
The optimal placement of SVC has been carried out using the 4 major objective
functions ‘T ’, VPII , ΔPL% and ΔQ L% together into consideration. In order to reduce the
computation time required to determine the optimal location, the performance of SVC is
analyzed only at the 4 weak bus locations (which could be found out using FVSI ) of IEEE
14 bus system at 150% loading. The required recovery time ‘T ’ is found to be lower when
SVC is connected at 13 14 and 9. As bus no. 14 gives the best result for all the 4 objective
functions, it is selected as the optimal location for the placement of SVC.
3. “Optimal Placement and Sizing of SVC for Loss Minimization and Voltage
Security Improvement using Differential Evolution Algorithm”
DE algorithm has been implemented for finding the optimal solution which
includes sizing and placement of SVC for loss minimization and improvement of
voltage security considering the cost of SVC during single line outage contingencies.
For optimal placement of SVC under various critical outage contingencies, different
optimal locations were obtained. For enhancement of voltage security in a power
system additionally more than one SVC located at optimum location are required. The
results evidently reveal the efficiency of DE algorithm for solving large-scale
optimization problems of power systems.

4. “A Comparison of Voltage Stability Indices for Placing Shunt FACTS

Controllers”
The strategy for placement and sizing of shunt controller is presented to obtain
maximum improvement in the voltage profile and enhancement in steady state voltage
stability margin. The performance of the indices shows high degree of accuracy and
reliability. Most of the indices are very simple in nature and easy to calculate. Suitable
shunt FACTS controller can be connected at the weakest bus/area in order to improve
the performance of the system.
 OBJECTIVES
• Modeling and designing of SVC controller
• Finding the optimal location of SVC for the following objectives
– Voltage profile improvement
– Real power loss reduction
– Reactive power loss reduction
• Recovery time of installed amount after installing SVC
 METHODOLOGY
• Considering the IEEE 30 bus system and increasing the system load to
130%. And calculating the weak line and week bus in the system by
using the fast voltage stability index(FVSI), which is one of the fastest
and most widely used line stability indices used to determine the weak
line and bus locations of a system. Depending upon the FVSI the
location of the SVC is decided. If the value of FVSI is higher for a
particular bus then that bus is considered as most instable one, so in
order to improve the stability the SVC is placed to corresponding bus to
compensate for voltage.
 REFERENCES
1. Sriparna Roy Ghatak, Debarghya Basu, Parimal Acharjee; Chowdhury. S. , “Voltage Profile Improvement and
Loss Reduction Using Optimal Allocation of SVC”, IEEE INDICON 978-1-4673-6540-6/2015
2. Asha Vijayan1 , S.Padma2 ”Maintaining Voltage Stability in Power System using FACTS Devices” ISSN 2319 –
6734 IJESI Volume 2 Issue 2 February. 2013.
3. K. Pathak, Dr. M. P. Sharma, Dr. Manoj Gupta : “Modeling and Simulation of SVC for Reactive Power Control
in High Penetration Wind Power System” IEEE INDICON 2015 1570185233
4. Alisha Banga1 and S.S. Kaushik, “Modeling and Simulation of SVC Controller For Enhancement of Power
System Stability”, IJAET ISSN: 2231-1963 2011
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International Power Engineering and Optimization Conference (PEOCO2014), Langkawi, The Jewel of Kedah,
Malaysia. 24-25 March 2014.
6. R. Phadke S. K. Bansal K. R. Niazi, “A Comparison of Voltage Stability Indices for Placing Shunt FACTS
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