MAXIMUM LOADABILITY OF POWER-SYSTEMS USING INTERIOR-POINT NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION METHODS

This paper proposes a non-linear optimization Interior Point (IP) meth od for the determination of maximum loadability in a power system. Det ails of the implementation of pure primal-dual and predictor-corrector primal-dual IP algorithms are presented. It is shown that most of the computational effort of the algorithm is taken by the formation and f actorization of the augmented Hessian matrix of the IP algorithm. The size of this matrix can be as large as ten times the number of buses i n the system. Comparisons of the two IP implementations with large sca le power systems with as many as 4000 buses are presented. It is shown that the IP algorithm constitutes an effective method for the determi nation of the maximum loadability in a power system.