Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch by Using Differential Evolution

Abstract

This article presents differential evolution to solve the combined heat and power economic dispatch problem. Differential evolution, an improved version of the genetic algorithm and evolutionary programming, is a very simple, fast, and robust global optimization technique. The proposed algorithm is illustrated for a test system, and the test results are compared with those obtained from particle swarm optimization and evolutionary programming.

Keywords:

• cogeneration
• combined heat and power economic dispatch
• differential evolution