Electrical Distribution System Reliability Improvement by Optimal Placement of Fault Indicators using Immune Algorithm

This paper proposes a methodology for optimal placement of fault indicators in distribution networks. The main objective is reliability improvement with consideration of economic aspects. Thus, it is defined as a minimization problem to minimize the Total Cost of Reliability (TCR). TCR is considered as the sum of customer interruption cost and the investment cost on fault indicators. The Artificial Immune Algorithm (AIA) is adopted to solve the proposed problem efficiently. The performance of the proposed approach is assessed and illustrated by studies on the real Iranian distribution network.

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