This paper presents a genetic algorithm based approach for solving the thermal generation dispatch with emission constraints. New encoding/decoding techniques are developed in the work. The chromosome contains only an encoding of the normalized system incremental cost. Therefore, the total number of bits of chromosome is entirely independent of the number of units. Moreover, the approach can ta...

Artificial Bee colony is one of the most efficient optimizing technique introduced so far. Artificial Bee Colony simulates the brilliant behavior honey bee swarm. Considering the environmental impacts that grow from the emission produced by the conventional fuel power plants, the economic dispatch that minimizes only the total fuel cost can no longer be considered as single objective function. ...

This paper presents a demonstration of solving combined economic and emission dispatch problems by using one of swarm intelligences, called particle swarm optimization. The objective of the combined problem can be expressed by taking both the total production cost and total emission into account with required constraints. Among potential intelligent search methods, particle swarm optimization i...

In this paper, Hopfield Neural Network (HNN) and Lagrange Multiplier (LM) solutions to economic dispatch (ED), NOx emission dispatch (EmD), and economic-emission dispatch (EED) of a sample system consisting of six thermal generators are presented. Transmission losses are included. The results of HNN are compared with the results of LM.

This paper presents an application of Harmony Search algorithm (HSA) to solve the Dynamic Economic-Environmental Dispatch (DEED) problem under some equality and inequality constraints. The equality constraints reflect a real power balance, and the inequality constraint reflects the limits of real generation. The voltage levels and security are assumed to be constant. Dynamic Economic-Environmen...

This paper addresses the problem of reducing CO2 emissions by applying convex optimal power flow model to the combined economic and emission dispatch problem. The large amount of CO2 emissions in the power industry is a major source of global warming effect. An efficient and economic approach to reduce CO2 emissions is to formulate the emission reduction problem as emission dispatch problem and...

An efficient and optimum economic operation of electric power generation systems has always occupied an important position in the electric power industry. This involves allocation of the total load between the available generating units in such a way that the total cost of operation is kept at a minimum. In recent years this problem has taken a suitable twist as the public has become increasing...