RESEARCH ARTICLE

Solving unit commitment problem using a novel version of harmony search algorithm

  • Roozbeh MORSALI 1 ,
  • Tohid JAFARI 2 ,
  • Amirhossein GHODS 3 ,
  • Mohammad KARIMI , 4
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  • 1. Babol (Noshirvani) University of Technology, Babol 4818637695, Iran
  • 2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz 157944533, Iran
  • 3. University of Ulsan, Ulsan 680749, Republic of Korea
  • 4. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Parsabad Moghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Parsabad Moghan 5691853356, Iran

Received date: 20 Nov 2013

Accepted date: 27 Feb 2014

Published date: 09 Sep 2014

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

In this context, a novel structure was proposed for improving harmony search (HS) algorithm to solve the unit comment (UC) problem. The HS algorithm obtained optimal solution for defined objective function by improvising, updating and checking operators. In the proposed improved self-adaptive HS (SGHS) algorithm, two important control parameters were adjusted to reach better solution from the simple HS algorithm. The objective function of this study consisted of operation, start-up and shut-down costs. To confirm the effectiveness, the SGHS algorithm was tested on systems with 10, 20, 40 and 60 generating units, and the obtained results were compared with those of the simple HS algorithm and other related works.

Cite this article

Roozbeh MORSALI , Tohid JAFARI , Amirhossein GHODS , Mohammad KARIMI . Solving unit commitment problem using a novel version of harmony search algorithm[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2014 , 8(3) : 297 -304 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-014-0309-7

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