PSO based economic emission dispatch for fixed head hydrothermal systems

The insufficient hydropower resources along with the deleterious effects of thermal generations necessitate an ingenious scheduling scheme to comply with the growing power demand. The rapidly depleting coal reserve further strengthens the need to develop a new strategy to accomplish generation-load balance at minimum fuel cost over the scheduling horizon, in addition to ensuring reduced emissions. The existing approaches appear to offer suboptimal solutions or suffer from the computational burden due to the large number of problem variables involved. This paper presents an efficient economic emission dispatch strategy involving reduced number of decision variables for hydrothermal scheduling through the use of particle swarm optimisation. The results on three test systems highlight its superior performance and suitability for systems of any size.

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