Real coded chemical reaction based optimization for short-term hydrothermal scheduling》.pdf

Applied Soft Computing 24 (2014) 962–976 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Soft Computing j o u r na l h o me p a ge : w w w. elsev /locate / a s o c Real coded chemical reaction based optimization for short-term hydrothermal scheduling Kuntal Bhattacharjee a , Aniruddha Bhattacharya b,∗ , Sunita Halder nee Dey c a Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal 713206, India b National Institute of Technology – Agartala, Tripura 799055, India c Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper presents a real coded chemical reaction based (RCCRO) algorithm to solve the short-term Received 14 April 2013 hydrothermal scheduling (STHS) problem. Hydrothermal system is highly complex and related with Received in revised form 18 April 2014 every problem variables in a nonlinear way. The objective of the hydro thermal scheduling is to determine Accepted 22 August 2014 the optimal hourly schedule of power generation for different hydrothermal power system for certain Available online 3 September 2014 intervals of time such that cost of power generation is minimum. Chemical reaction optimization mimics the interactions of molecules in term of chemical reaction to reach a low energy stable state. A real coded Keywords: