The electrical power generation from fossil fuel releases several contaminants into the air and this become excrescent if the generating unit is fed by Multiple Fuel Sources (MFS).The ever more stringent environmental regulations have forced the power producers to produce electricity not only at...

This paper has developed a metaheuristic-based methodology to commit and allocate the load demand among the running dual heat and power sources. The proposed two-stage process using Grey Wolf Algorithm (GWA) engages suitable heat and power units and performs the combined dispatch. The method was...

Purpose – The combined heat and power dispatch (CHPD) aims to optimize the outputs of online units in a power plant consisting thermal generators, co-generators and heat-only units. Identifying the operating point of a co-generator within its feasible operating region (FOR) is difficult. This...

In SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) systems operating at high temperatures, temperature fluctuation induces a thermal stress in the electrodes and electrolyte ceramics; therefore, the cell temperature distribution is recommended to be kept as constant as possible. In the present work, a mathematical...