Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system

This report describes new approaches for the determination of the direction of switched capacitor banks. It is an efficient technique for estimating the distance of switched capacitors from the monitoring location in distribution systems. At first, new indices based on branch voltage and current cha...

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Main Author: Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my-utm-ep.419242017-07-11T01:45:54Z Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system 2013-06 Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This report describes new approaches for the determination of the direction of switched capacitor banks. It is an efficient technique for estimating the distance of switched capacitors from the monitoring location in distribution systems. At first, new indices based on branch voltage and current changes immediately after the capacitor switching instant are proposed for determining the direction of switched capacitor banks. The wavelet transform is used to detect the exact instant of switching. Mathematical analysis of a capacitor bank energizing proves that, the energized capacitor bank affects only the upstream reactive power flow and, the energizing instant, the gradients, time derivatives of voltage and current waveforms measured upstream from the capacitor location will have opposite signs bank by simply evaluating power factor changes and the signs of voltage and current waveform gradients at the switching instant. Simulation results show that the error of the estimated distance is acceptable. Signatures of shunt capacitor bank switching transient phenomena from which one can accurately determine the relative location of an energized capacitor bank whether it is upstream or downstream from the monitoring location. 2013-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/41924/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/41924/5/AhmedJamalNooriMFKE2013.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori
Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
description This report describes new approaches for the determination of the direction of switched capacitor banks. It is an efficient technique for estimating the distance of switched capacitors from the monitoring location in distribution systems. At first, new indices based on branch voltage and current changes immediately after the capacitor switching instant are proposed for determining the direction of switched capacitor banks. The wavelet transform is used to detect the exact instant of switching. Mathematical analysis of a capacitor bank energizing proves that, the energized capacitor bank affects only the upstream reactive power flow and, the energizing instant, the gradients, time derivatives of voltage and current waveforms measured upstream from the capacitor location will have opposite signs bank by simply evaluating power factor changes and the signs of voltage and current waveform gradients at the switching instant. Simulation results show that the error of the estimated distance is acceptable. Signatures of shunt capacitor bank switching transient phenomena from which one can accurately determine the relative location of an energized capacitor bank whether it is upstream or downstream from the monitoring location.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori
author_facet Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori
author_sort Al-Ani, Ahmed Jamal Noori
title Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
title_short Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
title_full Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
title_fullStr Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
title_full_unstemmed Online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
title_sort online location determination of switched capacitor bank in distribution system
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/41924/5/AhmedJamalNooriMFKE2013.pdf
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