Combined economic and emission dispatch solution using Flower Pollination Algorithm

•FPA is proposed to solve ELD and CEED problems in power systems.•The proposed algorithm is tested on various six power systems.•Valve point effect and transmission losses are considered in this study.•The superiority of the FPA is confirmed compared with other algorithms.

Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is the process of allocating the required load between the available generation units such that the cost of operation is minimized. The ELD problem is formulated as a nonlinear constrained optimization problem with both equality and inequality constraints. The dual-objective Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (CEED) problem is considering the environmental impacts that accumulated from emission of gaseous pollutants of fossil-fueled power plants. In this paper, an implementation of Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) to solve ELD and CEED problems in power systems is discussed. A comparison of the simulated results using the proposed FPA is carried out to confirm its effectiveness against other swarm intelligent algorithms for six various power systems. The superiority of the proposed FPA compared with other algorithms is demonstrated even for large scale power system considering valve point loading effect.