Assessment of Reliability Improvement and Power Loss Reduction Based on Reconfiguration and Optimal Capacitor Placement Techniques

This work presented the modern and efficient Binary Salp Swarm Algorithm (BSSA) to enhance the reliability and power quality of Radial Distribution System (RDS) using Optimal Capacitor Placement (OCP) and Distribution System Reconfiguration (DSR) strategies. This study provides a new methodology and analysis for reliability assessment using multi-objective functions that reduce losses and enhance voltage profile. By using two different scenarios, the first is the individual Distribution System Reconfiguration (DSR) and the second method is individual optimal capacitor placement (OCP). These two scenarios are applied for a typical 33-bus IEEE RDS. The simulation results that obtained from Matlab software by using BSSA show superiority the OCP strategy compared to DSR strategy in improving all the power system reliability indices, voltage of buses in addition to percentage loss reduction 38.246% in OCP compared to 36.9381% in DSR.