Economic power dispatch of power system with pollution control using multiobjective particle swarm optimization

Abstract EN

This paper reports on a particle swarm optimization (PSO) method for solving the optimal power flow problem (OPF).

The objective is to minimize the total fuel cost of generation and environmental pollution caused by fossil based thermal generating units and also maintain an acceptable system performance in terms of limits on generator real and reactive power outputs, bus voltages, shunt capacitors / reactors and power flow of transmission lines.

The proposed approach has been evaluated on an IEEE 30-bus test system.

The results obtained with the proposed approach are presented and compared favorably with results of genetic algorithm technique.