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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025)

Published: December 16, 2025

Pages: 160-172

Original Article

Optimal Power Flow withWind Turbine and Thyristor-Controlled Series Compensator Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

Muqtada Fadhil 1 Layth Al-Bahrani
1Department of Electrical, College of Engineering, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
History
  • Received: March 28, 2024
  • Revised: May 16, 2024
  • Accepted: June 9, 2024
  • Available Online: February 7, 2025
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.21.2.16

Abstract

Increasing the penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) into power systems created challenges and difficulties in the management of power flow since RES have variable power production based on their sources, such as Wind Turbines (WT), which depend on the wind speed. This article used Optimal Power Flow (OPF) to reduce these difficulties and to explain how the OPF can manage the power flow over the system, taking different cases of WT power production based on the different wind speeds. It also used Fixable AC Transmission (FACT) devices such as Thyristor-Controlled Series Compensators (TCSC) to add features to the controllability of the power system. The OPF is a non-linear optimization problem. To solve this problem, the artificial intelligence optimization technique is used. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been used in the OPF problem in this article. The Objective Functions O.F. discussed here are losses (MW), Voltage Deviation VD (p.u.), and thermal generation fuel Cost ($/h). This article used the wind turbine bus magnitude voltage and the reactance of TCSC as a control variable in OPF. To test this approach, the IEEE 30 bus system is used.

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