A New Improved Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Nonconvex Economic Dispatch Problems

Jirawadee Polprasert, Weerakorn Ongsakul and Vo Ngoc Dieu
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Jirawadee Polprasert: Energy Field of Study, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand
Weerakorn Ongsakul: Energy Field of Study, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand
Vo Ngoc Dieu: Department of Power Systems, Electronic Electrical Engineering Faculty, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE), 2013, vol. 2, issue 1, 60-77

Abstract: This paper proposes a new improved particle swarm optimization (NIPSO) for solving nonconvex economic dispatch (ED) problem in power systems including multiple fuel options (MFO) and valve-point loading effects (VPLE). The proposed NIPSO method is based on the self-organizing hierarchical (SOH) particle swarm optimizer with time-varying acceleration coefficients (TVAC). The self-organizing hierarchical can handle the premature convergence of the problem by re-initialization of velocity whenever particles are stagnated in the search space. During the optimization process, the performance of TVAC is applied for properly controlling both local and global explorations with cognitive component and social component of the swarm to obtain the optimum solution accurately and efficiently. The proposed NIPSO algorithm is tested in different types of non-smooth cost functions for solving ED problems and the obtained results are compared to those from many other methods in the literature. The results have revealed that the proposed NIPSO method is effective and feasible in finding higher quality solutions for non-smooth ED problems than many other methods.

Date: 2013
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