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Load Flow Study

Using MatLab
Experiment no. 8
Load Flow Study
• Load flow (power flow) analysis is a basic analysis for the study
of power systems.
• It is used for normal, steady-state operation.
• It gives you the information what is happening in a power
system.
• Load flow analysis is an important prerequisite to do fault
studies, stability studies, economic operation etc.
Load flow objective

• The objective of load flow calculations is to determine the


steady-state operating characteristics of the power system for a
given load and generator real power and voltage conditions.
• Once we have this information, we can calculate the real and
reactive power flow in all branches together with power losses.
Bus types

Depending, upon which two variables you specify, the buses


(nodes) can be categorized into three categories:
Slack bus (Also called reference bus),
PQ bus/ Load Bus
PV bus/ Generator Bus
Bus Types
Bus Type Known Variable Unknown Variable

Slack/Reference V,δ P, Q

PV P, V Q, δ

PQ P, Q V, δ
Input & Output
Input(Bus Data)
• For slack bus:
 Voltage magnitude (usually 1 per unit),
 Voltage angle(specified to be zero),
• For PV Bus:
 Real power (generation and demand),
 Voltage magnitude.

• For PQ Bus:
 Real power
 Reactive power
Input(Line Data)
• Transmission lines:
• Resistance,
• Reactance,
• Capacitance (can be neglected).
Output
Load flow analysis provides following output data for each
node/branch:
• Voltage magnitude,
• Voltage angle,
• Real and reactive power,
• Power losses.
Methods
Two Common methods are
• Gauss-Seidel
• Newton-Raphson

Any one can be followed for the software project


Gauss-Seidel Method

1. Bus no 1 is swing bus.


2. Remaining generator buses are consecutively numbered
as 2,3,4…………………G.
3. The load buses are numbered as G+1,G+2,………N.
Final Output of Software Project
• Unknown values of Bus data
• Line to Line power flow
• Iteration count

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