Rehabilitation and Techno design of Distribution transformer and 11kV feeder of a radial distribution system

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman
² Department of Electrical Engineering, BVC College of Technology and Science, Amalapuram, A.P, India
³ Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

AbdulSaleem.Shaik@utas.edu.om
jvgramarao2@gmail.com
lokeshwar.Reddy@cvr.ac.in

Abstract

In any transmission and distribution system- the performance of that system mainly depends on voltage regulation and efficiency. Hence for the better operation of the system, it is required to maintain constant voltage regulation with good power factor and low power loss throughout the feeder. This can be achieved by using various methods. Out of those, placement of a capacitor bank at the densely loaded areas is the best-proven method compared to any other method. This research work considered the feeder-5 of the Al-Uwainath primary substation which was suffering from low voltage–poor regulation- problems. Here in this research modeled and analyzed 3 different techniques for rehabilitation to this low voltage, poor regulation, and power factor problem and recommended the most efficient method out of the three methods. As a part of this project simulated the same conditions of the site after collecting the data of the feeder from the site by using ETAP software and checked the performance by calculating its voltage regulation, power losses, and power factor in all three 3 different methods and recommended the most efficient method of feeder-5 rehabilitation by comparing the results of three methods with the exciting system.