You have to leave at least one with a free power factor and large enough 
reactive power range to balance the reactive power in the system.

-- 
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645



On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:

> How can I solve this problem?
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Roberto 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:44, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> But you are over-specifying the problem and it will not have a solution. You 
> can't specify all of the power factors exactly and expect the power flow 
> equations to be satisfied.
> 
> -- 
> Ray Zimmerman
> Senior Research Associate
> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
> phone: (607) 255-9645
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:
> 
>> Because I want to have PF=0.9 or 0.95 for all generators. As you know, it is 
>> very important
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:36, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You need a row of A for each generator, each one with QPratio in the column 
>> corresponding to Pg(i) and -1 in the column corresponding to Qg(i) ...
>> 
>> mpc.A = sparse([1:ng; 1:ng], [2*nb+(1:ng); 2*nb+ng+(1:ng)], 
>> [QPratio*ones(ng,1); -ones(ng,1)], 1:ng, 2*nb+2*ng);
>> 
>> As I said, this is likely to make the OPF infeasible, so I'm not sure why 
>> you'd want to do it.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ray Zimmerman
>> Senior Research Associate
>> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>> phone: (607) 255-9645
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible for you to give an example, for example case9, for all 
>>> generators? I will be appreciate if you do it.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards
>>> 
>>> R. Carvalini 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:08, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The A matrix is from equation (5.25) in the User's Manual. As I mentioned, 
>>> the coefficients need to go in the columns corresponding to Pg(1) and 
>>> Qg(1). So, Pg(1) is in the first column following the voltage angles (1st 
>>> nb columns) and magnitudes (next nb columns), so it's in column 2*nb+1. For 
>>> Qg(1) it's the first column after the Pg columns, so 2*nb (for the voltage 
>>> angles and magnitudes) plus ng columns for Pg.
>>> 
>>> Yes, if you wanted to do this for all generators, you need to include a row 
>>> in A for each. Be careful though, this will likely over-constrain the 
>>> problem and make it infeasible. If all generators have a fixed power 
>>> factor, then balancing the real power output to match the load will mean a 
>>> specific reactive power output as well, which will not necessarily match 
>>> the reactive power load.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Ray Zimmerman
>>> Senior Research Associate
>>> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>>> phone: (607) 255-9645
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>> 
>>>> I have read the manual but I didn't understand by which formula you 
>>>> computed this matrix (highlighted)
>>>> 
>>>> mpc.A = sparse([1; 1], [2*nb+1; 2*nb+ng+1], [QPratio; -1], 1, 2*nb+2*ng);
>>>> 
>>>> and if want to define the same PF for all generators, must I repeat this 
>>>> for all or it depends on the type buses (PV or Slack)?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> R. Carvalini
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 16:27, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dirk's suggestion is fine for a simple power flow. But if you want to run 
>>>> an OPF, where the generator dispatch is to be determined by the 
>>>> optimization, but subject to a constant power factor constraint, then you 
>>>> will need to supply an additional user-defined linear constraint. For 
>>>> example, if you want to run case9 with a constant power factor constraint 
>>>> of 0.95 on the first generator, you could do it like this ...
>>>> 
>>>> define_constants;
>>>> mpc = loadcase('case9');
>>>> nb = size(mpc.bus, 1);
>>>> ng = size(mpc.gen, 1);
>>>> pf = 0.95;
>>>> QPratio = sqrt(1/pf^2 -1);
>>>> %% add constraint that QPratio * Pg(1) - Qg(1) = 0
>>>> mpc.A = sparse([1; 1], [2*nb+1; 2*nb+ng+1], [QPratio; -1], 1, 2*nb+2*ng);
>>>> mpc.l = 0;
>>>> mpc.u = 0;
>>>> r = runopf(mpc);
>>>> resulting_pf = r.gen(1, PG) / sqrt(r.gen(1, PG)^2 + r.gen(1, QG)^2)
>>>> 
>>>> The important part here is defining the A matrix properly, where the 
>>>> columns correspond to voltage angles, voltage magnitudes, generator real 
>>>> injections, and generator reactive injections (2*nb + 2*ng columns in 
>>>> all). So the coefficients for our constraint co in the columns 
>>>> corresponding to Pg(1) and Qg(1).
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Ray Zimmerman
>>>> Senior Research Associate
>>>> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>>>> phone: (607) 255-9645
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Dirk Van Hertem wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You model your generator as a load, so it is not represented in your gen 
>>>>> matrix. Of course, if you want model your generator in a unit commitment, 
>>>>> this may not be trivial...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dirk
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 03/11/2011 12:32 PM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How can I add? my problem is this
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best Wishes
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Roberto 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:22, Dirk Van Hertem <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> You can just define them as a PQ bus with negative power... (negative 
>>>>>> load)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dirk
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 03/11/2011 12:11 PM, Roberto Carvalini wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How can I define constant power factor in MAPOWER for example, for 
>>>>>> generators PF=0.9?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please help me
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Roberto
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Dirk Van Hertem                       [email protected]
>>>>>> Electrical Engineering Department  http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/electa
>>>>>> K.U. Leuven, ESAT-ELECTA                     GSM: +32-(O)498-61.74.98
>>>>>> 10, Kasteelpark Arenberg, B-3001 Heverlee        fax: +32-16-32.19.85
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Dirk Van Hertem                       [email protected]
>>>>> Electrical Engineering Department  http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/electa
>>>>> K.U. Leuven, ESAT-ELECTA                     GSM: +32-(O)498-61.74.98
>>>>> 10, Kasteelpark Arenberg, B-3001 Heverlee        fax: +32-16-32.19.85 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>> 
>> Best Wishes
>> 
>> Roberto 
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