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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2002-02-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Newton Geraldo Bretas;
Luís Fernando Costa Alberto;
Nelson Kagan;
Christiano Lyra Filho;
Carlos Alberto Favarin Murari
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| Advisor: | Newton Geraldo Bretas; André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho |
| Abstract | |
The proposed research focus on the automatic elaboration of plans for service restoration in electrical distribution systems. So this research considers situations that leave network regions out-of-service. The service interruption may be caused by faults in the distribution circuit or by isolation of circuit zones for maintenance task. The restoration of the energy supply to the consumers is a multiobjective problem, with a certain degree of conflict. The restoration problem considers functions whose characteristics, in general, difficult the use of mathematical programming techniques to obtain restoration plans. Moreover, the approaches using such functions are intensively affected by the combinatorial explosion problem. The Evolutionary Algorithms have shown relevant results for this problem. Nevertheless, these techniques still have difficulties to obtain restoration plans, in a fast manner, for real size networks (i.e., large size). This work proposes a new methodology based on Evolutionary Algorithms. This approach involves also a new way to computationally represent distribution networks and to modify the network configurations. A specific load flow to be used with the new representation is also proposed. Severals tests are shown, using networks with different sizes, to evaluate the potential of the proposed technique. (AU) | |