ICCOPT 2013 Talk, Room 1.7, Monday, July 29, 14:30-16:00

 Speaker: Arvind U. Raghunathan, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
 Title: Global optimization of optimal power flow (OPF) problems
 Co-authors: Ajit Gopalakrishnan, Daniel Nikovski, Lorenz T. Biegler

 Abstract:
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We propose a semidefinite relaxation based spatial branch and bound algorithm for the solution of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem to global optimality. We show that this approach can solve to global optimality the general form of the OPF problem including: generation power bounds, apparent and real power line limits, voltage limits and thermal loss limits. The approach makes no assumption on the topology or resistive connectivity of the network and also removes some of the restrictive assumptions of earlier SDP approaches. We present test cases where solutions fail to satisfy the SDP rank condition and have a non-zero duality gap. The proposed branch and bound algorithm is able to solve these cases to global optimality.


 Talk in: Organized Session Mon.B.17 Stochastic optimization of complex systems
 Cluster: Applications of continuous optimization in science and engineering


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