The paper deals with the problem of reconfiguration of a primary three-phase three-wire distribution network with unbalanced loads following the criterion of power loss minimization. The authors propose modification of a well-proven algorithm the need for which has been necessitated by using an unbalanced network of power losses and currents in it for reconfiguration. For computing the parameters mentioned, a program for load flow computation in the balanced network is used for modeling an unbalanced network as a single-line equivalent scheme. Efficiency of proposed approaches has been confirmed by results of reconfiguration of a test distribution network.
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