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Solving the Problem of General Capacitor Placement in Radial Distribution Systems with Laterals Using Simulated Annealing
Branko D. Stojanović Miloš S. Nedeljković
Simulated annealing was introduced as the algorithm for solving general capacitor placement problem by a group of engineers from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1990s. It is the method which searches for a global optimum of the objective function rather than being stuck to the local optima whose number grows as problem dimension increases. In the developed programs, original methods for solving the problem are introduced. Optimum is reached by initializing an algorithm with more rigorous parameters and for reasonable amount of CPU time.
Key words: capacitor, distribution network, reactive force, algorithm.
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