Unit Commitment (UC) is an optimization problem used to determine the operation schedule
of the generating units at every hour interval with varying loads and generations under …

Unit Commitment (UC) is a key task in electric power system operation, aiming at minimizing
the total cost of power generation. It is essential to monitor wide range of activities and …

This paper presents a new optimization technique ie teaching learning based optimization
(TLBO) to solve combined heat and power dispatch (CHPD) problem with bounded feasible …

For a current deregulated power system, a large amount of operating reserve is often
required to maintain the reliability of the power system using traditional approaches. In this …

An integrated technique that embeds civilized swarm optimization (CSO) and Powell's
pattern search (PPS) method is proposed to search economic dispatch of combined heat …

Economic dispatch (ED) problem is a nonlinear and non-smooth optimization problem when
valve-point effects, multi-fuel effects and prohibited operating zones (POZs) have been …

During the last years, operators of combined heat and power (CHP) plants are challenged
by changing circumstances in the electricity markets. While ensuring a stable heat and …

Economic dispatch (ED) is one of the important problems in the operation and management
of the electric power systems which is formulated as an optimization problem. Modern …

Polygeneration is an integrated process that produces two or more energy products from
one or more primary energy sources (PES). Polygeneration systems have wide applications …

For the purposes of lowering environmental emission cost and increasing economic profit,
energy efficient combined heat and power (CHP) units can be integrated with conventional …