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Economic Dispatch in Cogeneration Systems (EDCS) provides the optimal scheduling of heat and power of generation units. This can be achieved by minimizing the total cost of fuel (TCF) of the cogeneration units taking into consideration their operational limits. A manta ray foraging MRF optimizer, in this paper, is developed to solve the EDCS problem including the valve point impacts, and wind power. MRF optimizer is designed with adaptive penalty functions for acquiring the most feasible and best operational points for the EDCS problem. Infeasible solutions are handled with various degrees and penalized depending on their remoteness from the closest possible point. The overall power and heat loading are completely achieved by the equality constraints. Also, the cogeneration units' dynamic operating limits are not adversely affected since its concerning limitations of heat-only and power-only units are fulfilled. Two test systems of small 5 and large 96-units, are analyzed. In addition to this, an assessment of the recent optimization techniques, which are applied on to EDCS, has been developed and discussed. The applications are carried out for two scenarios at peak and daily variation in the power and heat loading condition. The wind power inclusion is assessed for each scenario in terms of the overall reduction in the total fuel costs. It was proven also; the inclusion of wind power achieves more economical solution at different scenarios with reduction up to 8%. It is crystal clear that the outputs obtained illustrate MRF optimizer efficiency, feasibility, and capability to obtain better solutions in minimizing the fuel cost compared to other optimization techniques at acceptable convergence rates. Moreover, the solutions demonstrate the ability of MRF optimizer application on the large-scale 96-unit systems. • A manta ray foraging (MRF) optimizer is developed to solve the EDCS problem. • The EDCS problem involves the valve point impacts, and wind power inclusion. • MRFO is designed with adaptive penalty for acquiring the best EDCS points. • Two scenarios at peak and daily variation in the power and heat loads. • Inclusion of wind power achieves economical solutions for different scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the critical optimization issues in the economic management of power and heat systems is the Combined heat and power economic dispatch (CHPED). The valve-point effects of thermal units as well as the interdependency of CHP outputs make the nonlinearity and non-convexity in optimization and dispatch models. A novel Amalgamated Heap-based and JellyFish Optimizer (AHJFO) is proposed, in this paper, to improve the efficiency of two newly developed techniques, Heap-based Optimizer (HO) and Jellyfish Optimizer (JFO). The proposed AHJFO incorporates an adjustment strategy function (ASF) to increase the explorative characteristic at the beginning of iterations by upgrading the produced solutions using HO. Further, as iterations go, it improves the exploitative characteristic by expanding the created solutions using JFO. The proposed AHJFO provides higher effectiveness compared to HO and JFO to obtain the solution of CHPED problem for medium 24 and large 96-unit systems. The simulation results show that the proposed AHJFO based on ASF aids in the avoidance of premature convergence and improves solution accuracy. Besides, the proposed AHJFO is successfully applied to the CHPED issue involving (N-1) unit outages. A re-dispatch strategy based on AHJFO is presented and the impact of outages of all units is analyzed after (N-1) unit outages. Also, further applications of the proposed AHJFO for ED problem are carried out with/without additional constraint models of power flow considering the IEEE 30-bus system. The simulation results show the superiority of the proposed AHJFO compared to HO, JFO and other algorithms for solving the CHPED and ED issues. Moreover, feasibility study is demonstrated of the solutions obtained for the CHPED and ED issues with additional constraint models. • Combined heat and power economic dispatch problem is solved by AHJFO Optimizer. • The AHJFO provides higher effectiveness for medium 24 and large 96-unit systems. • The simulation results are applied to the CHPED issue involving (N-1) outages. • Applications of the AHJFO for ED problem are carried out with/without additional constraint models. • Feasibility study is demonstrated of the solutions obtained for the CHPED and ED issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]