The multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (MEWMA) control chart is one of the best statistical control chart that are usually used to detect simultaneous small deviations on the mean of more than one cross-correlated quality characteristics. The economic design of MEWMA control charts involves solving a combinatorial optimization model that is composed of a nonlinear cost function ...

economic dispatch with valve point effect and prohibited operating zones (pozs) is a non-convex and discontinuous optimization problem. harmony search (hs) is one of the recently presented meta-heuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems, which has different variants. the performances of these variants are severely affected by selection of different parameters of the algorithm. intel...

Dynamic economic load dispatch is one of the most important roles of power generation’s operation and control. It determines the optimal controls of production of generator units with predicted load demand over a certain period of time. Economic dispatch a subjects in the power network’s operation, which is a complicated nonlinear constrained optimization problem. Since dynamic economic load di...

A successful cogeneration system design project needs an estimation of the economical parameters of the project, including capital investment, costs of fuel, expenses in maintenance and operating, and the proper cost for the products. This study describes the economic consideration of the benchmark cogeneration systems, called CGAM system located in the United States. To evaluate the profitabil...

Economic growth in China is accompanied by many problems, such as rapid deterioration of the environment and a sharp decline in the area of arable land. China’s current land-use planning system fails to deal with these problems, especially at the regional level. The lack of sustainable spatial allocation at regional level has become a pressing problem. This article aims to: (1) analyze the reas...

The economic dispatch of wind power units is quite different from that in conventional thermal units; since the adopted model should take into consideration the intermittency nature of wind speed as well. Therefore, this paper uses a model that takes into account the aforementioned consideration in addition to whether the utility owns wind turbines or not. The economic dispatch is solved by usi...

This paper highlights the improved Adaptive Tumbling Bacterial Foraging Optimization (ATBFO) to grant better solution particularly in emission economic power dispatch issue. The proposed methodology simply takes care in solving non-convex power system issues along maintaining the requirement of all equipped constraints for healthy power delivery operation. The performances are evaluated with di...

This paper develops an efficient and clear insight view about the application of various PSO algorithms to the economic load dispatch problem with emission restrictions as the constraint. Solution acceleration techniques in the algorithm which enhance the speed and robustness of the algorithm are developed. The power and usefulness of the algorithm is demonstrated through its application to a t...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of two approaches based on Vector Evaluated Particle Swarm Optimization (VEPSO) algorithm in two real world applications, which are the environmental economic dispatch problem and the optimization of a reinsurance contract portfolio. The two tested algorithms are the canonical VEPSO and a new version called VEPSO-N, where in the last one ...