Abstract This research paper reports the implementation of short-term scheduling of hydro-thermal power plants by using an artificial bee colony algorithm. Short-term hydro-thermal scheduling is a type of economic dispatch problem in which thermal power plants are dispatched at the optimized operating point to reduce the fuel cost and to achieve in parallel the maximum cost-benefit from hydel power plants. The power system, considered in this study, is assumed to run optimally and the transmission losses have also been taken into account. The artificial bee colony algorithm proves itself to be most suited for this particular problem as it results in the minimum cost in the shortest time compared with those obtained from previously applied techniques.

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基于人工蜂群算法的水火电厂短期优化调度

摘要 本研究论文报告了使用人工蜂群算法实现水火电厂短期调度的情况。短期水热调度是一种经济调度问题，在优化运行点调度火力发电厂，以降低燃料成本，同时实现水力发电厂的最大成本效益。本研究中考虑的电力系统被假定为最佳运行，并且传输损耗也已考虑在内。人工蜂群算法证明自己最适合解决这个特定问题，因为与以前应用的技术相比，它可以在最短的时间内产生最低的成本。