Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 184986, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/184986
Research Article
Dynamic Economic Dispatch Using Hybrid DE-SQP for Generating Units with Valve-Point Effects
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71511, Egypt
3Centre of New Energy Systems, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Received 10 June 2012; Revised 20 July 2012; Accepted 30 July 2012
Academic Editor: J. J. Judice
Copyright © 2012 A. M. Elaiw et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper presents hybrid differential evolution (DE) and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) for solving the dynamic economic dispatch (DED) problem for generating units with valve-point effects. DE is used as a global optimizer and SQP is used as a fine tuning to determine the optimal solution at the final. The feasibility of the proposed method is validated with five-and ten-unit test systems. Results obtained by DE-SQP method are compared with other techniques in the literature.