Resumen de A solution to the unit commitment problem through the use of the molecular geometrical optimisation concept (UCGO)
Mauricio Canales, Boris Pavez Lazo, Mario Lillo Saavedra, Claudio Roa Sepúlveda
This paper proposes ihe use of a model based on the geometrical optimisation (GO) of molecular systems to solve ihe problem of unit commitment (UC). To achieve this, units are modelled as artificial molecules, where each atom of the molecule defines a generating unit operational state. Therefore, this paper considers the unit commitment as a problem of continuous characteristics. To perform the geometrical optimisation applied to the proposed model the Simulated Annealing (SA) technique is applied. A 5 and an 18-unit test systems are used to validate ibis proposal. In each system, technical restrictions, ¡initial conditions, start up and shut down costs are considered.
