Enhancement of evolutionary optimization techniques applied to conventional and cogeneration power economic dispatch problems

Abstract

This thesis presents the enhancements of evolutionary algorithms newlineEAs and their application to solve the economic dispatch ED problems of newlineconventional thermal power plants and cogeneration power plants The newlineobjective of the ED power ED PED and combined heat and power ED newlineCHPED problem is to determine the output power of every generating unit newlineso that all the demands are satisfied at minimum cost while satisfying the newlineconstraints of the network and the generators newlineTo solve the PED problem of conventional thermal power plant newlineeffectively most algorithms require the incremental cost curves to be newlinemonotonically smooth and continuous newline newline