09/05/2026
MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMAL POWER FLOW USING SCUBA DIVER OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR ENHANCED ECONOMIC AND VOLTAGE PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY ON THE IEEE 30-BUS SYSTEM
DESIGN DETAILS
Optimal Power Flow (OPF) plays a critical role in ensuring the secure, economical, and reliable operation of modern power systems under complex operational constraints. This Matlab design presents an efficient OPF solution based on the Scuba Diver Optimization Algorithm (SDOA) integrated with effective constraint-handling techniques. The proposed framework incorporates boundary correction, penalty functions, and feasibility restoration strategies to strictly satisfy system constraints, including generator limits, voltage magnitude bounds, transformer tap settings, and reactive power compensation.
The SDOA demonstrates strong optimization capability through its adaptive search mechanism inspired by diver behavior, where oxygen-level-driven depth transitions effectively balance global exploration and local exploitation. This dynamic search strategy enhances the algorithm’s ability to avoid premature convergence and efficiently handle highly nonlinear and non-convex OPF problems. Moreover, the inclusion of adaptive communication and reset mechanisms improves population diversity and convergence reliability under varying operating conditions.
The developed model optimally regulates key control variables while satisfying nonlinear AC power flow equations and network security constraints. The proposed approach is validated on the standard IEEE 30-bus test system under multiple objective scenarios, including fuel cost minimization, emission reduction, voltage profile enhancement, and active power loss minimization.
Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed SDOA-based OPF method achieves high-quality feasible solutions with improved convergence speed and robustness compared to conventional optimization techniques. Significant improvements are observed in operational cost reduction, voltage stability enhancement, and overall system performance. These findings confirm that the proposed approach is a reliable, flexible, and computationally efficient tool for solving complex OPF problems in modern power systems.
Case 1: Minimization of fuel cost
Case 2: Minimization of cost considering multi-fuels
Case 3: Enhancement of voltage stability of the network
Case 4: Minimization of emission
Case 5: Minimization of real power loss
Case 6: Minimization of fuel cost considering valve point effect
Case 7: Minimization of fuel cost and real power loss
Case 8: Minimization of fuel cost and voltage deviation
Case 9: Minimization of fuel cost and enhancement of voltage stability
Case 10: Minimization of fuel cost, emission, voltage deviation and losses
Case 11: Minimization of voltage deviation
REFERENCES
Reference Paper-1: Optimal power flow solutions using differential evolution algorithm integrated with effective constraint handling techniques
Author’s Name: Partha P. Biswas, P.N. Suganthan, R. Mallipeddi and, Gehan A.J. Amaratunga
Source: Elsevier
Year:2017
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