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Title An Enhanced Model for Sitting, Sizing, Timing and Determining the Service Area of MV/LV Transformers
Type Presentation
Keywords Distribution system planning, Distribution Transformer, radial Distribution network, linearization
Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach for sitting, sizing, timing and determining the service area of distribution (MV/LV) transformers. Considerable modifications are made to a previous model by changing the objective function and increasing the constraint set to overcome its drawbacks. The objective function includes fixed and variable costs of MV/LV transformers. Electrical constraints such as voltage drop, radiality, transformer loading and power flow are taken into account and a number of constraints to overcome some non-linearities in the objective function are added. The performance of the proposed model is demonstrated by extensive computational experience using the CPLEX 11.2 optimizer.
Researchers Hana Jannati (Second Researcher), Jamal Moshtagh (First Researcher)