Optimization of Hydropower Storage Projects Using Harmony Search Algorithm

• Main Authors: Kim, Joong Hoon, Mousavi, S. J., Nakhaei, P., Ali Sadollah
• Other Authors: Del Ser, Javier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Harmony search algorithm; Optimization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83350; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42533
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper proposes a harmony search algorithm-based optimization of design and operation of hydropower storage systems. The optimization formulation of the problem is a nonconvex nonlinear program difficult to solve by gradient-based nonlinear programming techniques. The search space of the problem...