Optimal Design and Control of SSSCs for TLs Considering Technical and Economic Indices Using GA and SAMPE-JAYA Algorithms

Abstract

Improving transmission lines (TL) steady-state stability limit can be achieved by Static Synchronous Series Compensators (SSSC) that work as a converter-based compensator. The modification of the SSSC function to inject both active and reactive power into the TL improves its performance according to different indices. The TL improvement indices include the reduction of TL losses, the enhancement of dynamic stability margin and the improvement of voltage profile along the TL. The economic index is considered a vital factor in the design of SSSC devices installed in TLs. This paper proposes an objective function to design and control SSSC devices by considering various technical and economical indices. The formulation of the objective function requires power flow analysis in the compensated transmission line under different loading conditions and compensation levels. The proposed multi-objective function includes the transmission line losses, the dynamic stability span, and the cost of SSSC device. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Self-adaptive Multi-population Elitist Jaya Algorithm (SAMPE-JAYA) are proposed as optimization techniques to obtain the minimized value of the multi-objective function. This paper proposes the installation of two SSSC devices in TL that leads to the improvement of the design and control indexes. The proposed objective function and the optimization techniques are applied for tie-line (400kV, 400km) that connects between two networks.

Keywords

• Dynamic stability
• FACTS
• genetic algorithm (GA)
• self-adaptive multi-population elitist (SAMPE) Jaya algorithm
• static synchronous series compensator (SSSC)