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Thyristor-Controlled Switch Capacitor Placement In Large-Scale Power Systems Via Mixed Integer Linear Programming And Taylor Series Expansion, Omid Ziaee, F. Fred Choobineh

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Allocation of flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices to an electric power transmission network may be formulated as a nonlinear mathematical program. Solving such a nonlinear program for a large transmission network is computationally very expensive, and obtaining the optimal solution may be impossible. We present a Taylor series expansion approximation of the nonlinearities of the problem and propose a mixed integer linear program (MILP) for finding the optimum location and proper settings of a Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) in an electric power network. The objective of this problem is to minimize total generation cost based on the DC …