Thank you so much.

Best Wishes

Carlos

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:39, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. If you have a specific MATPOWER question, I'll be happy to answer it,
> but I can't implement it for you you. My suggestion was to use MATPOWER's
> OPF as a subroutine for your own simple single variable greedy search
> optimization.
>
> 2. MATPOWER's OPF always treats generator reactive power injection as an
> optimization variable (constrained by QMIN, QMAX and possibly a trapezoidal
> capability curve, see Section 5.4.3 in the manual). If you a case *without*
> reactive power control, I suppose you could set QMIN equal to QMAX or
> something.
>
> 3. You will see evidence of Qg being included in the optimization variable
> x in most of the OPF related files (Tables D-8, D-9). Have a look at
> opf_setup.m, mipsopf_solver.m, opf_costfcn.m, opf_consfcn.m, for starters.
>
>  --
> Ray Zimmerman
> Senior Research Associate
> 419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
> phone: (607) 255-9645
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Carlos Gonzalez Almeida wrote:
>
> Dear Prof. Zimmerman,
>
> Thank you for help.
>
> 1. I care a single tap ratio for the slack bus only. Could you please help
> me to implement it in MATPOWER?
>
> 2. My mean about "Phi", is : Power Factor = Cos (Phi). I need PF as
> optimization variable in order to compare the results with and without
> reactive power control. If you have another solution for this, please let
> me know.
>
> 3. Could you please let me know in what .m file you have considered
> reactive power as optimization variable? what is the name of the m file in
> MATPOWER?
>
> Best Wishes
>
> C. G. Almeida
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:02, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, including a transformer tap ratio as an optimization
>> variable is not possible without major modifications. I would like to add
>> this some day, but no promises. If anyone has any good references on this
>> that would be appreciated.
>>
>> If it is a single tap ratio that you care about, it might be possible to
>> use some brute force greedy search that simply calls runopf iteratively
>> while adjusting the tap ratio in search of an improved solution.
>>
>> Regarding reactive power as an optimization variable, I'm not sure about
>> the "Phi" you are referring to. However, all reactive power injections from
>> generators are already optimization variables (see Qg in equation (5.5) in
>> the manual).
>>
>>   --
>> Ray Zimmerman
>> Senior Research Associate
>> 419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>> phone: (607) 255-9645
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Carlos Gonzalez Almeida wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dr. Zimmerman
>>
>> I want to use the tap of Transformer at slack bus as optimization
>> variable in MATPOWER? How can I do this?
>>
>> Also, how can I add reactive power as variable of optimization. In other
>> words, if I want to have "Phi" of cos Phi as optimization variable, how can
>> I add this?
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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