The flow chart of the rank evolutionary particle swarm The comparison of power losses reduction between

LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE TITLE PAGE 2.1 Radial configuration 5 2.2 Loop configuration 5 2.3 Mesh configuration. 5

3.1 The flow chart of the rank evolutionary particle swarm

15 optimization algorithm 3.2 Implementation of REPSO in Network Reconfiguration 20 4.1 Number of iteration versus the total power losses for PSO 26 Algorithm 4.2 Number of iteration versus the total power losses for EPSO 27 Algorithm 4.3 The total power losses versus the no of iteration for REPSO 28 algorithm. 4.4 The comparison of total power losses reduction between 31 PSO, EPSO and REPSO algorithm 4.5 The comparison of the convergence time between 32 PSO, EPSO and REPSO algorithm 4.6 69kV bus test system 34

4.7 The comparison of power losses reduction between

36 PSO,EPSO and REPSO. 4.8 The comparison of the computational time for 69kV 38 bus test system 4.9 The initial 33-bus configuration 39 4.10 The 33-bus radial after reconfiguration with PSO 40 4.11 The 33-bus radial after reconfiguration with EPSO 41 4.12 The 33-bus radial after reconfiguration with REPSO algorithm 42 4.13 The 69-bus radial after reconfiguration with PSO 44 4.14 The 69-bus radial after reconfiguration with EPSO 45 4.15 The 69-bus radial after reconfiguration with REPSO 46 LIST OF TABLES TABLE TITLE PAGE 4.1 The best ten values of power losses after reconfiguration with 26 PSO algorithm 4.2 The best ten values of power losses after reconfiguration with 27 EPSO algorithm 4.3 The best ten values of power losses after reconfiguration 28 with REPSO algorithm 4.4 The analysis results for 33-bus test system for the three cases 30 4.5 The Convergence Time Analysis for Simulation 32 4.6 The analysis results for 69kV-bus test system for the four cases 35 4.7 The computational time for the three cases 37 4.8 The summarization of 33kV and 69kV analysis results 47 LIST OF APPENDICES APPENDICES TITLE PAGE A The 33-bus data 53 B The load flow data 56 C1 The bus admittance matrix for power flow 57 solution data C2 The Newton-Raphson data 57 C3 Paper Published in 2014 Fifth International 63 Conference on Intelligent System Modelling and Simulation ISMS2014 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Motivation