COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ECONOMIC DISPATCH USING GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED PENALTY FUNCTION METHOD

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a new genetic approach for solving combined heat and power (CHP) economic dispatch problems. The complication of CHP dispatch lies in the constraints imposed by the multi-demand and heat-power capacity mutual dependencies. The paper proposes improved penalty function formulation for Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to effectively handle constraints. The method has been tested and compared to demonstrate its effectiveness

Keywords:

• Combined heat and power economic dispatch
• genetic algorithms
• optimization