REAL POWER LOSS REDUCTION BY ENHANCED ACCLIMATIZED BACTERIAL EXPLORATION ALGORITHM

This paper presents Enhanced Acclimatized Bacterial Exploration (EBE) algorithm to solve reactive power problem. Bacterial Search Optimization Algorithm has recently emerged as a very powerful technique based on the behaviour of E-coli bacteria. In order to speed up the convergence of Bacterial search Optimization Algorithm, this paper proposed a new hybridization between Bacterial Search Optimization Algorithm (BSO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In order to evaluate the proposed Enhanced Acclimatized Bacterial Exploration (EBE) algorithm, it has been tested in standard IEEE 118 & practical 191 bus test systems and compared to other standard algorithms.