Reconfiguration

DSTATCOM Placement

Base configuration

DE [9]

ABC [10]

Proposed Method (ACO) [11]

VSI [11]

Proposed Method (ACO)

Tie switches

33, 34, 35, 36, 37

7, 9, 11, 32, 37

33, 14, 18, 32, 28

13, 10, 5, 27, 18

-

-

Actives losses

214.72

139.5

139.5

121.56

143.03

137.68

Vmin (pu) (node)

0.9128

(28)

0.9378

(32)

0.9437

(33)

0.9845

(12)

0.9222 pu

0.9288 pu

Loss reduction (%)

-

31.2

35.03

43.38

33.38

35.87

CPU (s)

-

23

5.3

18.331

-

5.563

DSTATCOM Size (MVar)

-

-

-

-

3.386

3.1

DSTATCOM position

-

-

-

-

30

30