Solving Practical Economic Dispatch Problems Using Improved Artificial Bee Colony Method

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Belkacem Mahdad 1,* Kamel Srairi 1

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Biskra University, Algeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.07.05

Received: 20 Jul. 2013 / Revised: 4 Dec. 2013 / Accepted: 22 Feb. 2014 / Published: 8 Jun. 2014

Index Terms

Global optimization, Artificial bee colony, Economic dispatch, Optimal power flow, Valve point effect, Prohibited zones, Local search

Abstract

This paper presents an improved artificial bee colony (IABC) optimization method to solving practical economic dispatch taking into account the nonlinear generator characteristics such as valve-point loading effects. In order to exploit the performance of this new variant based ABC method to solving practical economic dispatch, a new local search mechanism (LSM) associated to the original ABC algorithm; it allows exploiting effectively the promising region to locate the best solution. The proposed approach has been examined and applied to many practical electrical power systems, the 13 generating units, and to the large electrical system with 40 generating units considering valve point loading effects. From the different case studies, it is observed that the results compared with the other recent techniques demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach and show clearly its effectiveness to solve practical and large ED.

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Belkacem MAHDAD, Kamel Srairi, "Solving Practical Economic Dispatch Problems Using Improved Artificial Bee Colony Method", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.6, no.7, pp.36-43, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2014.07.05

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