Hybrid ABC-BAT for Solving Short-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Problems

Smarajit Ghosh, Manvir Kaur, Suman Bhullar and Vinod Karar
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Smarajit Ghosh: Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering; Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Manvir Kaur: Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering; Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Suman Bhullar: Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering; Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Vinod Karar: Optical Devices and Systems, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Sector 30-C, Chandigarh 160030, India

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: The main objective of short-term hydrothermal scheduling is the optimal allocation of the hydro and thermal generating units, so that the total cost of thermal plants can be minimized. The time of operation of the functioning units are considered to be 24 h. To achieve this objective, the hybrid algorithm combination of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and the BAT algorithm were applied. The swarming behavior of the algorithm searches the food source for which the objective function of the cost is to be considered; here, we have used two search algorithms, one to optimize the cost function, and another to improve the performance of the system. In the present work, the optimum scheduling of hydro and thermal units is proposed, where these units are acting as a relay unit. The short term hydrothermal scheduling problem was tested in a Chilean system, and confirmed by comparison with other hybrid techniques such as Artificial Bee Colony–Quantum Evolutionary and Artificial Bee Colony–Particle Swarm Optimization. The efficiency of the proposed hybrid algorithm is established by comparing it to these two hybrid algorithms.

Keywords: artificial bee colony; BAT algorithm; particle swarm optimization; quantum evolutionary; relay unit; short-term hydrothermal scheduling systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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