February 2013

An evolutionary programming embedded Tabu search method for hydro-thermal scheduling with cooling – banking constraints

  This paper presents a new approach for solving the unit commitment problem (UCP) in hydro-thermal power system. The main objective of this paper is to find the generation scheduling by committing the generating units such that the total operating cost can be minimized by satisfying both the forecasted load demand and various operating constraints. It is a Global optimization technique for solving UCP,...

Author(s): Nimain Charan Nayak and C. Christober Asir Rajan

February 2013

Design and simulation study of a simple ion injector

  The stated purpose of this manuscript is to study the parameters of a single-gap accelerator system with a view to optimizing the transport of a beam of argon ions. A study is made for the main factors that must be considered on the design of an ion injector taking into account the appropriate design of the single gap accelerator column by doing such study both analytically and with ion beam simulation. These...

Author(s): M. M. Abdelrahman, N. I. Basal and S. G. Zakhary