Model of Hydrothermal Unit Commitment Using Semidefinite Programming

• Grant number: 13/07570-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: December 29, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Power Systems
• Principal Investigator: Secundino Soares Filho
• Grantee: Miguel Paredes Quinones
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/08972-4 - A semidefinite programming model for the hydro-thermal unit commitment problem, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research project considers the development of an optimization model for unit commitment problem of hydrothermal systems (HTUC). This problem will be defined as a large scale nonlinear mixed integer model, solved using the advantages of semidefinite programming applied to combinatorial problems. The model should find a schedule of optimal operation of hydroelectric and thermoelectric power plants for a opertion time of one day or one week, with discretization hourly or half hourly. The objective function is to minimize the operation cost of power plants, considering both start-up cost of thermoelectric and hydroelectric plants of the machines and the cost of hydroelectric generation losses. The use of binary variables for schedule the units and nonlinear restrictions of the transmission system model, make this a highly complex problem. The elements of the objective function and constraints of the hydrothermal system has not been considered well developed in the literature as a unified model, since it always has been simplified modeling of less prevalent generation.

Scientific publications

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PAREDES, M.; MARTINS, L. S. A.; SOARES, S.; YE, HONGXING. Benders' decomposition of the unit commitment problem with semidefinite relaxation of AC power flow constraints. Electric Power Systems Research, v. 192, MAR 2021. (13/07570-7, 14/08972-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

QUINONES, Miguel Paredes. Short term hydrothermal operation planning model using semidefinite programming. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação Campinas, SP.