A novel seeker optimization approach for solving combined economic and emission dispatch

Over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in record history. The main reason behind this is emission of Carbon dioxide from thermal power plants. The U.S only produces 2.5 billion tons every year. This paper solves the problem of emission dispatch including economic dispatch combining as combined economic dispatch and emission dispatch (CEED). Economic dispatch gives a solution to reduce the total fuel cost while Emission dispatch is to reduce the emission level with the required system constraints. In this paper Particle swarm Optimization is used to solve CEED on a test system and the results are compared with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm.