Research Article

Performance of Various Metaheuristic Techniques for Economic Dispatch Problem with Valve Point Loading Effects and Multiple Fueling Options

Table 5

Reliability based on 100 independent runs for twenty units system with = 2500 MW.

MethodMincostMeancostSTDcostMaxcostMeanCPU time (s)

Lambda iteration method [38]62456.63910.033
Hopfield neural networks [38]62456.63410.006
Gaussian PSO [21]60526.1561123.36330.8962757.190.50
Chaotic PSO [21]60803.5161223.95507.5662982.190.37
Proposed
 PS59829.1561256.211342.5663125.561.054175
 SA59803.4561002.341423.8962340.1632.31666
 SQP57231.4359012.451712.3560123.230.294808
 PS-SQP58123.9858563.65976.14058901.261.348983
 SA-SQP57120.2158011.78658.34158764.3833.643791