Novel method for solving radial distribution networks

Abstract

The paper presents a novel method using load flow for solving radial distribution networks. The radial feature of the network has been fully exploited to develop an algorithm by a unique lateral, node and branch numbering scheme. The proposed method involves only the evaluation of simple algebraic voltage expressions without any trigonometric functions. Thus, computationally, the proposed method is very efficient and requires less computer memory storage as all data is stored in vector form. The proposed method can easily handle different types of load characteristics. Several Indian rural distribution networks have been successfully solved using the proposed method known as the forward sweeping method.