An enhanced multiobjective particle swarm optimization algorithm for economic environmental dispatch problem

Economic Environmental Dispatch (EED) problem is the most serious problem in power operations and management. Taking into consideration transmission losses, power balance constraint, and generator capacity constraint, the EED problem becomes a non convex optimization problem, which is a difficult task that cannot be solved with traditional techniques. Furthermore, with both the environmental issues and economic objectives, the EDD problem can be formulated as a constrained nonlinear multiobjective optimization problem. In the present work, an enhanced multiobjective particle swarm optimization algorithm (EMOPSO) is proposed and applied to solve the EED problem. The proposed approach EMOPSO extends the particle swarm optimization to deal with multiobjective continuous optimization problems, EMOPSO incorporates a crowding distance mechanism for leader selection and deletion in an external archive of non dominated solutions, this mechanism improves the diversity and uniformity of the pareto front. A mutation operator is used in the population to prevent the premature convergence of the algorithm. The simulations have been made on IEEE 30 bus test system with six generators. The results are satisfying, and show that the proposed EMOPSO method was capable of achieving better performance compared with other multiobjective algorithms in the literature.