WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems
Print ISSN: 1790-5060, E-ISSN: 2224-350X
Volume 18, 2023
Optimal STATCOM Design via Flower Pollination Approach for A Multimachine Power System
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Abstract: A new metaheuristic method, the Flower Pollination Approach (FPA), based on the pollination process of flowers is proposed in this article for the optimal design of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) in a multimachine environment. The STATCOM parameter tuning process is converted to an optimization problem which is solved by FPA. The performance of the proposed FPA-based STATCOM (FPASTATCOM) is compared with Genetic Algorithm (GA) based STATCOM (GASTATCOM) under various operating conditions and disturbances. The superiority of the proposed technique in damping oscillations is confirmed via eigenvalues and time domain simulation results over the GA.