Research Article

Distribution Network Reconfiguration for Power Loss Reduction and Voltage Profile Improvement Using Chaotic Stochastic Fractal Search Algorithm

Table 3

Result comparison of CSFSA with other methods for the 84-bus system.

MethodTie-switchesPower loss (kW)ΔVDVmin(p.u.)CPU time (s)

Initial84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96531.990.07150.9285
IMI-DE [36]7-13-34-39-41-55-62-72 - 83-86-89-90-92469.880.04690.953136.15
PGSA [37]7-13-34-39-42-55-62-72-83-86-89-90-92469.88113.25
GA [38]7-13-34-39-42-55-62-72-83-86-89-90-92469.8787.809
BB-BCA [32]7-33-38-55-62-72-83-86-88-89-90-92-95471.620.046820.9531813.25
AIS-ACO [40]7-13-34-39-42-55-62-72-86-89-90-91-92471.140.05210.9479
Heuristic method [41]7-34-39-42-55-63-72-82-86-88-89-90-92470.89
CSFSA55-7-86-72-13-89-90-83-92-39-34-42-62469.8780.046810.95319748.95