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This paper is concerned with the unit commitment of hydro generating units on an hourly basis throughout a single day. A performance criterion that takes into consideration variations in tailrace elevation, penstock head loss and... more
This paper is concerned with the unit commitment of hydro generating units on an hourly basis throughout a single day. A performance criterion that takes into consideration variations in tailrace elevation, penstock head loss and turbine-generator efficiency is suggested as the objective function for the optimization model. A heuristic procedure based on Lagrangian Relaxation was implemented to solve the problem. The approach was then tested on a system composed of sixteen hydro plants, one hundred generating units, and an installed capacity of 21,933 MW, in the Brazilian power system. The scheduling of generation verified for a typical day was used for comparison with the solution proposed by this procedure. The results show a significant improvement in terms of hydro conversion efficiency.