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LOAD FLOW ANALYSIS visit

🙄 What

Given the load power consumption at all buses of a known electric power system configuration and the
power production of each generator , find the power flow in each line and transformer of the
interconnecting network and the voltage magnitude and phase angle of each bus.

🙄 Why

 Component or circuit loading

 Steady-state bus voltage
 Reactive power flows
 Transfomer tap settings
 System losses
 Generator exciter / Regulator voltage set points
 Performance under emergency conditions

🙄 When

 Planning
 Modification
 Addition
 deletion

🙄 How

 Iterative
 Newton Raphson , Gauss Seidel , Fast Decoupled method
 Slack bus concept , Frequency Dependent load flow , Forward-Reverse algorithm

✍ Assumptions

 Slack bus – we are assuming slack bus has infinite P & Q capability to maintain frequency and
voltage
 Source is balanced
 Network is balanced
 Load is balanced

✍ Drawback

 Accuracy