New PSO Techniques for the Optimization of Economic Load Dispatch of Thermal Generated Power

Abstract

Generation of electrical power at a thermal power plant at low cost is a great challenge. As the cost of fuel, transportation, and maintenance increased, the generation of power cost per unit also increases. Economic load dispatch analysis is one of the ways to use the all available generating units, generate the power in such a way so that demand can be fulfilled. It also helps us to maintain the different constraints. The latest PSO with strong capability of searching global solution proposed in the work. It can handle the economic load dispatch without affecting the constraints limits. The proposed new PSO has the capability to move the particles in the area of examining very fast. And evaluate the solution effectively in very short of the span. Work also extended and solved for ELD problem of the test data of 2, 3 and 6 generating unit systems using PSO, WIPSO, SOH-PSO and new PSO. The result with new PSO shows that the associated algorithm is effective and efficient compared with PSO techniques used in this work.