
Air pollutants generated by thermal power plants have been a major source of environmental and health hazard. This paper develops an optimal mechanism for generation scheduling of a hybrid power system consisting of conventional and renewable power plants while maintaining the air-pollutant concentration below a targeted level. To capture the physical movement of the air pollutants, the proposed framework applies a two-dimensional advection-diffusion model and discretizes it into a discrete-time state-space model. Due to the limited sensing, we design a Kalman filter for data assimilation. Based on the proposed mechanism, the integration of the Independent System Operator (ISO) with the sensors and power plants constitutes a feedback system for the efficient operation of the smart energy systems. To accelerate the computations, we decompose the original problem into small sub-problems and design a decentralized algorithm to provide solutions to the environmentally constrained power dispatch problem. We use case studies to evaluate the influence of the pollution constraints on the solutions and the impact of the wind speed on the pollution constraints.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 3 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
