Load Flow
Load Flow Analysis
The Power Flow Simulation is a fundamental analysis module for demand evaluation, power flow analysis, losses, power factor correction, and voltage drop calculations.
As the industry benchmark, ETAP Load Flow Software offers built-in features such as autorun load flow simulator, equipment evaluation, alerts / warnings summary reports, load flow result analyzer, and intelligent & interactive graphics, making it the best and most efficient electrical power flow analysis software available today.
Load Flow Software Key Features
- Voltage drop study & power flow analysis
- Power factor correction
- Automatic device evaluation
- Automatic temperature correction
- Two-winding & three-winding transformer LTC actions
- Automatic voltage regulator actions
- Real & reactive power losses
- Extensive violation alerts and reporting
- Load Flow Result Analyzer
- AutoRun load flow simulation based on system changes
- Toolbar to change & display result units with a single-click
- Powerflow simulation with multiple loading & generation conditions
- Load flow study calculation & reporting
Load Flow Software Capabilities
The Load Flow Simulator supports swing, voltage regulated, and unregulated power sources with multiple power grids and generator connections.
- User-controlled power-flow calculation convergence parameters
- Compare & analyze multiple reports using load flow result analyzer
- Include effect of phase-shifting transformers
- View power flow results graphically
- Evaluate critical & marginal limit violations
- Simultaneously solve three-phase & single-phase system load flow
- Isolated single-phase source modeling
Load Flow Software Flexible Operations
- Diverse operating conditions
- Multiple loading & generation categories
- Multiple demand factors
- Different model of lumped loading
- Unlimited configurations
- Different nameplate data
- Global & individual bus diversity factors
- Online / Real-Time Load Flow interface
Load Flow Software Study Options
- Option to update initial power flow conditions
- Phase-shifting transformers
- Auto-adjust online LTC / voltage regulator settings
- Power factor correction
- Saves load flow solution parameters for each scenario
- Make changes to your system & re-run load flow studies instantly
- Conduct unlimited “what-if” studies within one database
- Calculate bus voltages, currents, & power factors
- Bus, transformer, cable, generator overload warnings
- Update loading for Direct Current (DC) load flow calculations
- Five levels of automatic power flow error checking
- Power factor & efficiency at no-load & overload conditions
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Try ETAP Load Flow Software
ETAP Load Flow software offers built-in features such as automatic device evaluation, alarms / warnings, result analyzer, and intelligent graphics making it the most efficient Load Flow program available today.
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How to run a Load Flow Calculation in ETAP
ETAP Load Flow calculates bus voltages, branch power factors, currents, system losses, power generation versus loading, and simulates control voltages throughout the system using the ETAP Electrical Digital Twin model. Learn how to enter data into an existing one-line diagram and run a power flow calculation.
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