Dissipativity of nonlinear ODE model of distribution voltage profile

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a power distribution system consisting of a straight feeder line. A nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) model is used to describe the voltage distribution profile over the feeder line. At first, we show the dissipativity of the subsystems corresponding to active and reactive powers. We also show that the dissipation rates of these subsystem coincide with the distribution loss given by a square of current amplitudes. Moreover, the entire distribution system is decomposed into two subsystems corresponding to voltage amplitude and phase. As a main result, we prove the dissipativity of these subsystems based on the decomposition. As a physical interpretation of these results, we clarify that the phenomena related to the gradients of the voltage amplitude and phase are induced in a typical power distribution system from the dissipation equalities. Finally, we discuss a reduction of distribution losses by injecting a linear combination of the active and reactive powers as a control input based on the dissipation rate of the subsystem corresponding to voltage amplitude.