Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem

Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is one of the important optimization tasks which provide an economic condition for power systems. In this work, Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as an efficient and reliable evolutionary based approach has been proposed to solve the constraint economic load dis...

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Main Author: Zaraki, Abolfazl
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling my-utm-ep.183442017-09-20T06:52:51Z Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem 2009-11 Zaraki, Abolfazl TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is one of the important optimization tasks which provide an economic condition for power systems. In this work, Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as an efficient and reliable evolutionary based approach has been proposed to solve the constraint economic load dispatch problem. The proposed method is able to determine, output power generation for all of the power generation units, so that the total, constraint cost function is minimized. In project report, a piecewise quadratic function is used to represent the fuel cost of each generation units, and the B-coefficient method is used to model transmission losses. The feasibility of the proposed Modified PSO is demonstrated for 4 power system test cases, consisting 3,6,15, and 40 generation units. The obtained Modified PSO results are compared with Standard PSO (SPSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Quadratic Programming (QP) base approaches. These results reveal that the proposed method is capable to get higher quality solution including mathematical simplicity, fast convergence, and robustness to solve hard economic load dispatch problem. 2009-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18344/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18344/5/AbolfazlZarakiMFKE2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Electronics Nuclear engineering
Zaraki, Abolfazl
Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
description Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is one of the important optimization tasks which provide an economic condition for power systems. In this work, Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as an efficient and reliable evolutionary based approach has been proposed to solve the constraint economic load dispatch problem. The proposed method is able to determine, output power generation for all of the power generation units, so that the total, constraint cost function is minimized. In project report, a piecewise quadratic function is used to represent the fuel cost of each generation units, and the B-coefficient method is used to model transmission losses. The feasibility of the proposed Modified PSO is demonstrated for 4 power system test cases, consisting 3,6,15, and 40 generation units. The obtained Modified PSO results are compared with Standard PSO (SPSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Quadratic Programming (QP) base approaches. These results reveal that the proposed method is capable to get higher quality solution including mathematical simplicity, fast convergence, and robustness to solve hard economic load dispatch problem.
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author Zaraki, Abolfazl
author_facet Zaraki, Abolfazl
author_sort Zaraki, Abolfazl
title Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
title_short Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
title_full Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
title_fullStr Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
title_full_unstemmed Implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
title_sort implementing modified particle swarm optimization method to solve economic load dispatch problem
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2009
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/18344/5/AbolfazlZarakiMFKE2009.pdf
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