TLWorkstation code: Version 1. 1: Volume 6, TLOP/SAGT manual, Revision 1

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5155396

Douglass, D A; Grant, I S

The transmission line optimization project has the goal of developing innovative optimization techniques for 115-500 kV transmission lines to optimize the interdependent electrical, environmental, and structural design parameters with respect to such factors as initial or lifetime cost, electric field strength, and right-of-way requirements. This project is developing two closely linked computer programs to aid a line designer: TLOP, for Transmission Line Design Optimization, and TLSPOT, for Tower Spotting. This Manual describes the TLOP program. The TLOP program optimizes the cost of a transmission line as a system of interdependent environmental, structural, insulation, and economic parameters. An optimum solution is obtained from analysis of the present worth of revenue requirements of the line's direct costs and cost of losses, for all combinations of user-specified design factors. Major variables considered are conductor system and structure type. The program also provides design capabilities such as radioaudible noise, sag tension, and conductor temperature in an essentially stand-alone form. Development of the program is continuing.

• Research Organization: Power Technologies, Inc., Schenectady, NY (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5155396
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EL-4540-CCM-Vol.6-Rev.1; ON: TI88920237
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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