Abstract: This study explores just how to increase distribution network efficiency by way of using Distribution Static Synchronous Compensators (D-STATCOM) as well as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods. This study focuses on improving the voltage profile, stability, along with reducing power loss in the Gonder feeder line, which includes 69 buses, 57 loads, and a total capacity of 7.2 MW. The early results indicated that sixteen buses had voltage amounts outside normal levels, and showed possible voltage stability problems. The overall active power dissipated was 177.9424 kW, and the overall reactive power dissipated was 144.2124 kVAr for the base case. The results demonstrated quite unequivocally that D-STATCOM placement improved the voltage profile so as to be within a range from 0.95 to 1.05 P.u. Quite meaningful reductions in total power losses were also certainly achieved, specifically around 79.4989% for active power as well as 79.5429% for reactive power. The D-STATCOM usefully reduced voltage stability problems, along with power loss, for different load states (from 90% to 110% of the power limit). This analysis focuses mainly on the key advantages of D-STATCOM and PSO to allow for increasing distribution network execution, which then leads to a useful answer for greater grid stability, along with functional effectiveness.

Keywords: Voltage Stability, D-STATCOM, Power Loss, Voltage Profile, PSO, Forward/Backward Sweep Load Flow

Pages: 172-192