Short-term operation planning on cogeneration systems: A survey

This paper presents a survey of the developed researches from 1983 up to 2006 related to the cogeneration systems. The survey is focused on short-term operation planning and papers are grouped according to the most important characteristics. This paper contributes to: (i) give an extensive survey in the area and (ii) mention aspects in the short-term operation planning that have been poorly developed and where future contributions are required.