Reducción de pérdidas de potencia activa mediante la ubicación óptima de condensadores en derivación en una red de distribución haciendo uso del algoritmo del lobo gris

Abstract

The constant growth of electrical demand, due to a greater extent to the increase of the population and the increase of loads connected to the network, causes voltage drops and power losses in the distribution systems. A global solution to this problem is to make use of reactive power compensation (RCP), which can be carried out by means of shunt capacitors (SC), since the reactive power they inject produces an improvement of the voltage profile, as well as a reduction of power losses, but to achieve these benefits it is necessary to locate them correctly in the system, resulting in a capacitor location optimization problem (OCP). In this paper, the use of the gray wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm is proposed to solve the OCP problem in the 34-bus IEEE system. The results obtained show an improvement of the voltage profile in addition to a significant reduction of power losses, thus proving the effectiveness and performance of the methodology used. To perform the system modeling, calculations, algorithm development and simulation, Matlab software is used.