| Project ID |
B20
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| Application Area |
B
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| Project Title |
Optimization of gas transport
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| Description |
Natural gas is one of the most important energy sources in Germany and Europe. In
recent years, political regulations have led to a strict separation of gas trading and
gas transport, thereby assigning a central role in energy politics to the transportation
and distribution of gas. These newly imposed political requirements influenced the
technical processes of gas transport in such a way that the complex task of planning
and operating gas networks has still intensified.
Mathematically, the combination of discrete decisions on the configuration of a gas
transport network, the nonlinear equations describing the physics of gas, and the
uncertainty in demand and supply yield large-scale and highly complex stochastic
mixed-integer nonlinear programs. For solving this type of problems, no suitable
algorithms or software are available by now.
With respect to each individual aspects of stochastic
mixed-integer nonlinear programming, i.e.,
mixed-integer linear programming, global optimization of nonlinear programs, and
stochastic programming, remarkable progress has been made, however, over the last
decades.
The goal of this project is to incorporate these powerful technologies
into a general framework which can solve the mixed-integer
nonlinear programs with stochastic components arising in gas transport (and in other
areas as well).
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| Duration |
05/09 - 05/14
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| Status |
running
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| Members |
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| Heads |
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| Guests |
| Prof. Pietro Belotti | | Dr. Dennis Michaels |
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| Website |
http://www.zib.de/Optimization/Projects/MIP/Matheon-B20/Matheon-B20long.en.html
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