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Power Flow Input Data

Mirsad Cosovic edited this page Apr 10, 2020 · 17 revisions

The input data is located in the data directory as the mat-file with the struct variable data. The power system data is provided as the variable data.system, with variables bus, generator, line, inTransformer, shiftTransformer, and baseMVA.

The minimum amount of information within an instance of the data structure required to run the module requires a bus, one of the variables line, inTransformer, and shiftTransformer.

First, the system base power is defined in (MVA) using data.system.baseMVA, and in the following, we describe the structure of other variables involved in data.system.


Bus data are located in data.system.bus with the structure:

Column Description Unit
1 bus number
2 bus type
3 initial voltage magnitude per-unit
4 initial voltage angle degree
5 load real power injection MW
6 load reactive power injection MVAr
7 shunt element (equivalent active power) MW
8 shunt element (equivalent reactive power) MVAr
9 minimum voltage magnitude per-unit
10 maximum voltage magnitude per-unit

Generator data are located in data.system.generator with the structure:

Column Description Unit
1 bus number
2 real power injection MW
3 reactive power injection MVAr
4 minimum reactive power injection MVAr
5 maximum reactive power injection MVAr
6 voltage magnitude per-unit
7 on/off status

Transmission line data are located in data.system.line with the structure:

Column Description Unit
1 from bus number
2 to bus number
3 resistance per-unit
4 reactance per-unit
5 total charging susceptance per-unit
6 on/off status

In-phase transformer data are located in data.system.inTransformer with the structure:

Column Description Unit
1 from bus number
2 to bus number
3 resistance per-unit
4 reactance per-unit
5 total charging susceptance per-unit
6 turns ratio
7 on/off status

Phase-shifting transformer data are located in data.system.shiftTransformer with the structure:

Column Description Unit
1 from bus number
2 to bus number
3 resistance per-unit
4 reactance per-unit
5 total charging susceptance per-unit
6 turns ratio
7 shift angle degree
8 on/off status