Voltage profile improvement of KR power network using reactive power control

Joint Authors

Abd al-Fattah, Amin A.
Husayn, Towana S.

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

7

Main Subjects

Natural & Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Electronic engineering

English Abstract

The growth of demand and so the generation causes the Kurdistan Regional (KR) network to be heavily loaded which lead to high drop voltages across the lines and cause the bus voltage at the some nodes to be under the permissible level.

In this study, PSS™E software has been used to simulate and analyse the KR network.

The worst voltage profile has been used for year 2013.

The load flow analysis results appeared that the voltage at most nodes are below the permissible value (for example the lowest voltage is at Soran bus 0.8629 pu).

To improve the voltage profile SVC facilities are proposed.

To apply SVC device; weak buses are found and the SVC device is placed at this bus.

Results show great improvement in the voltage profile (for example the lowest voltage after application of SVC is 0.9423 pu), reduce losses and also increase the lines’ capacity.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-786872

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