AN APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC DISPATCH USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

Abstract

In the economic load dispatch, power plants are operated at minimum cost, but environmental pollution caused by fossil-fueled electric power plants is not considered. Therefore, new solution suggestions have come up due to the growing environmental problemsin recent years. One of these suggestions is environmental economic load dispatch which aims to both operations of plants at minimum cost and trying to minimize the amount of emissions. In this study, 6-generator system with three load demands 500, 700 and 900 MW is tested to solve environmental economic load dispatch problem. Genetic algorithm from heuristic optimization methods is preferred for this problem. The results which transmission losses are considered are compared with the other studies in the literature. These results show the effectiveness and superiority of the method over economy and reduction of the emission

Keywords

• Environmental Economic Dispatch, Genetic Algorithm, Optimization, Emission

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