Development of a Power Flow Error Scanning Algorithm in a Platform for Active Distribution Management System

This article highlights the creation of an algorithm that belongs to an automated Active Distribution Management System (ADMS) platform of an electric power system. This developed program is focused on the prevention and verification of errors that can be found in the execution of the power flow algorithm. The creation of test algorithms, applied to ADMS, is justified in the need to automate and optimize the development of the platform, to streamline the testing process and not require human resources to do so. The ADMS platform has the characteristic and similarity of a Supervision Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and allows simulations of operation, planning and prevention of contingency situations, from data obtained in the entire electrical system. The ADMS platform is being developed by a Research and Development (R&D) project. The Power Flow Test (PFT) algorithm presented here is the first developed code for testing on the ADMS platform. The entire platform is developed on the web, and the algorithms use JAVA programming.