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An Example Optimization in Power Systems: Unit Commitment/Economic Dispatch

This document provides an overview of unit commitment and economic dispatch problems in power systems optimization. It discusses the unit commitment problem of determining which generators to operate to meet demand at minimum cost given startup costs and minimum up and downtime constraints. It also discusses the economic dispatch problem of determining the optimal power output of committed units to meet a demand. The document provides an example optimization problem minimizing total generation cost subject to power balance and unit constraints. It presents cost functions for three generator units and solves for the minimum cost combination of units to produce 550MW of power. The document concludes with observations on committing too few, many, or too many units compared to the demand.

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An Example Optimization in Power Systems: Unit Commitment/Economic Dispatch

This document provides an overview of unit commitment and economic dispatch problems in power systems optimization. It discusses the unit commitment problem of determining which generators to operate to meet demand at minimum cost given startup costs and minimum up and downtime constraints. It also discusses the economic dispatch problem of determining the optimal power output of committed units to meet a demand. The document provides an example optimization problem minimizing total generation cost subject to power balance and unit constraints. It presents cost functions for three generator units and solves for the minimum cost combination of units to produce 550MW of power. The document concludes with observations on committing too few, many, or too many units compared to the demand.

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AN EXAMPLE OPTIMIZATION IN POWER

SYSTEMS
Unit Commitment/Economic
Dispatch
Tutorial 2
Joseph Fisher
Senior Lecturer
UC PROBLEM
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Min F   FCit Pit 
Subject to: i1
Real power balance constraint,
Real power operating limits,
Spinning reserve constraint
Minimum uptime & downtime of unit, and
Startup cost of the unit
Problem Definition
Given load
Given set of generator units on-line
How much should each unit generate to meet this load at minimum
cost?
UC
Unit Commitment
Given load profile (e.g. values of the load for each hour of a day)
Given set of units available
When should each unit be started, stopped and how much should it
generate to meet the load at minimum cost?
Tutorial 1
Unit 1:
• PMin= 250 MW, PMax= 600 MW (Operating limits of Unit 1)
• C1= 510.0 + 7.9 P1 + 0.00172 P12 $/h (Cost function of Unit 1)
Unit 2:
• PMin= 200 MW, PMax= 400 MW (Operating limits of Unit 2)
• C2= 310.0 + 7.85 P2+ 0.00194 P22 $/h (Cost function of Unit 2)
Unit 3:
• PMin= 150 MW, PMax= 500 MW (Operating limits of Unit 3)
• C3= 78.0 + 9.56 P3+ 0.00694 P32 $/h (Cost function of Unit 3)
What combination of units 1, 2 and 3 will produce 550 MW at minimum
cost?
How much should each unit in that combination generate?
Cost for Various Combinations
Observations from this Tutorial
Far too few units committed:
Can’t meet the demand
Not enough units committed:
Some units operate above optimum
Too many units committed:
Some units below optimum
Far too many units committed:
Minimum generation exceeds demand
END OF TUTORIAL 2
Assignment 1
Problem 1
Problem 2 (20 marks)
Read the article on Graph Modelling for tracking COVID-19 Pandemic
spread (attached).
(i) Summarize in 500 words that application of optimization in
modelling the spread of COVID-19.
(ii) Perform a simulation model on the spread of COVID-19 from Lae
City to a remote village in Kabwum District.
Note; (a) discuss all the possible routes of transmission and plot the
spread.
(b) Discuss all measures to contain the spread.

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