NaPHthA: Quantifying Physical Health of Distribution Systems

NaPHthA quantifies the physical health of a distribution system as a floating point number between 1.0 and 0.0 based on voltage and power flow deviations from average values. The target customers are executives or engineers who want to answer the question "how bad is it?" to make decisions. The program inputs the voltages of every bus and the power flow through every line and outputs the physical health of each area substation (ASR) in the form of a JSON object that gets pushed to a Kafka server. The program was created to inform another piece of software, Viseng, of the physical health of each ASR in an IEEE 33-bus model. The essential advantage of this program is that it can assess the health of the distribution system regardless of the number or type of power generators. The critical factors in the program enable executives to emphasize the importance of particular buses, lines, or ASRs. The quantifiable benefits include assessing the distribution system's health and making decisions based on that information.

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