Ranking of Sites for Installation of Hydropower Plant Using MLP Neural Network Trained with GA: A MADM Approach

Table 3

Results obtained by applying MLP-GA.

Power plant site

Test input (); (the 19 subattributes which are used for each plant)

Output from hidden layer; = sigmoid (1); where

Output from output layer; = sigmoid (2); where =

Rank

Bajoli HEP, Himachal Pradesh (180 MW)

98.0, 80, 60, 140, 7.30, 9.60, 9.0, 3700, 10.42, 5.05, 5.0, 0.522, 50.00, 15.00, 11.0, 5.00, 50.0, 10.0, 2.0, −1

0.050311

II

Ting Ting HEP, Sikkim (97 MW)

6.80, 9.00, 19.00, 79.0, 7.19, 8.81, 3.00, 44.33, 4.91, 2.22, 2.50, 0.313, 10.00, 2.00, 7.00, 5.00, 5.00, 15.00, 1.02, −1

1.000000

I

Tipaimukh HEP, Manipur (1500 MW)

80, 80, 60, 100, 7.5, 2.9, 8.4, 2200, 5.43, 4.65, 7.5, 6.67, 291, 20, 30, 5.0, 20, 10.0, 3.5, −1

−1.000000

III

Nafra HEP, Arunachal Pradesh (96 MW)

50, 24, 21, 56, 7.0, 5.0, 3.0, 2350, 7.19, 3.53, 3.0, 0.780, 5, 1, 0, 10, 4, 4, 2.3, −1

0.050311

II