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

Table 3

Fitness evaluation values and their respective computational time for proposed schemes.

Scenarios	PS		SA		SQP		PS-SQP		SA-SQP
	Case  1	2.01E − 13	0.29975	1.25E − 15	26.9359	5.24E − 19	0.09749	8.95E − 21	0.22732	8.40E − 19	0.05562
Case  2	1.84E − 11	1.68357	1.20E − 16	29.8246	1.22E − 11	2.98696	2.90E − 13	1.10707	1.00E − 19	0.24536
Case  3	2.01E − 13	0.29975	1.25E − 15	26.9359	5.24E − 19	0.09749	8.95E − 21	0.22732	8.40E − 19	0.05562