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Article

Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement

by
Afroz Alam
1,
Mohd Tariq
1,*,
Mohammad Zaid
1,
Preeti Verma
1,
Marwan Alsultan
2,
Shafiq Ahmad
2,
Adil Sarwar
1,* and
Md. Alamgir Hossain
3
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, ZHCET, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India
2
Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
3
Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan 4111, Australia
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electronics 2021, 10(24), 3182; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243182
Submission received: 18 November 2021 / Revised: 10 December 2021 / Accepted: 13 December 2021 / Published: 20 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Simulation with Renewable Power: Protection, Optimization and Control)
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Abstract

There is a need for the optimal positioning of protective devices to maximize customers satisfaction per their demands. Such arrangement advances the distribution system reliability to maximum achievable. Thus, radial distribution system (RDS) reliability can be improved by placing reclosers at suitable feeder sections. This article presents comprehensive details of an attempt to determine the reclosers’ optimal location in an RDS to maximize the utility profit by reliability improvement. Assessment of different reliability indices such as SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIFI, CAIDI, etc., with recloser placement, exhibits a considerable improvement in these indices in contrast with the absence of recloser. Consequently, a new bidirectional formulation has been proposed for the optimized arrangement of reclosers’. This formulation efficiently handles the bidirectional power flow, resulting from distributed generation (DG) unit (s) in the system. The proposed model has been solved for a test system by utilizing the Genetic algorithm (GA) optimization method. Later, test results conclude that reclosers’ optimal placement contributes significantly towards utility profit with minimum investment and outage costs.
Keywords: distribution system; distributed generation; reliability; recloser; jellyfish algorithm distribution system; distributed generation; reliability; recloser; jellyfish algorithm

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Alam, A.; Tariq, M.; Zaid, M.; Verma, P.; Alsultan, M.; Ahmad, S.; Sarwar, A.; Hossain, M.A. Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement. Electronics 2021, 10, 3182. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243182

AMA Style

Alam A, Tariq M, Zaid M, Verma P, Alsultan M, Ahmad S, Sarwar A, Hossain MA. Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement. Electronics. 2021; 10(24):3182. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243182

Chicago/Turabian Style

Alam, Afroz, Mohd Tariq, Mohammad Zaid, Preeti Verma, Marwan Alsultan, Shafiq Ahmad, Adil Sarwar, and Md. Alamgir Hossain. 2021. "Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement" Electronics 10, no. 24: 3182. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243182

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Alam, A., Tariq, M., Zaid, M., Verma, P., Alsultan, M., Ahmad, S., Sarwar, A., & Hossain, M. A. (2021). Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement. Electronics, 10(24), 3182. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243182

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