This work introduces a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation for the efficient planning of crude oil supplies to a major refinery, through a long-distance pipeline. The proposed approach combines the potentials of slot-based and…
With the rapid development of the world economy, the petrochemical industry energy reserve strategy and production demand increase, petrochemical storage tank farm scale is also expanding, and continue to large, intensive direction of development. In…
More than 85% of urban and 40% of rural areas of Iran are connected to the national gas pipeline network. For remaining areas of Iran, this method of gas transportation is not possible due to the great distance to the gas transmission lines, low…
The central Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) is vulnerable to impacts from climate changes. This vulnerability makes the development of strategies to mitigate climate change necessary. Furthermore, transportation sector is one of the most…
In this paper, we examine a bi-objective road and pipe network design for crude oil transport in the Sfax region in Tunisia. In particular, we search for the minimum spanning trees (MST) that connect the different oil fields with the port of La…
The transportation of crude oil from production fields to refineries is a very important operation in the oil industry. In this paper, an inventory routing problem for crude oil transportation is studied, where the crude oil is transported from a…
With the rapid development of the world economy, the petrochemical industry energy reserve strategy and production demand increase, petrochemical storage tank farm scale is also expanding, and continue to large, intensive direction of development. In…
Production operations planning is an important function for the integration of petroleum midstream delivery activities, as it defines the strategy for product delivery at the operational level in order to meet delivery contracts. This paper describes…
Production operations planning is an important function for the integration of petroleum midstream delivery activities, as it defines the strategy for product delivery at the operational level in order to meet delivery contracts. This paper describes…
The combustibility and fluidity is usually a major issue in heavy oil of power plant, which affects by asphaltene and insoluble matter due to the long-term storage. In this dissertation, the effects of asphaltene and insoluble matter characteristics…
Production operations planning is an important function for the integration of petroleum midstream delivery activities, as it defines the strategy for product delivery at the operational level in order to meet delivery contracts. This paper describes…
Production operations planning is an important function for the integration of petroleum midstream delivery activities, as it defines the strategy for product delivery at the operational level in order to meet delivery contracts. This paper describes…
Studies conducted by ISO New England have identified risks related to disruptions in fuel-supply chains. The results show that New England continues to face potential reliability risks and exposure to high wholesale electric energy costs. The primary…
Traditionally, the energy supply in off-grid communities has relied on diesel generating units based microgrids (MGs) but global environmental concerns and advancements in renewable energy technology are pushing for the transformation of these…
In recent days, aiming for power generation with less carbon emission, led to the high penetration of renewable energy into the distribution grid. To improve the intermittency caused by renewables and to increase the grid flexibility, grid integrated…
This paper introduces a planning model that can be used by an investor who would like to provide ancillary services (AS) to electricity markets. The proposed model helps the investor evaluate two potential options: aggregating distributed batteries…
There have been strong drivers toward lessening diesel dependency in remote communities. These off-grid communities can be difficult to access, and often face challenges with diesel supply. More importantly, governments are striving to improve the…
In recent years, due to the wide utilization of direct current (DC) power sources, such as solar photovoltaic (PV), fuel cells, different DC loads, high-level integration of different energy storage systems such as batteries, supercapacitors, DC…
The emerging interest in deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in distribution networks represents a great challenge to both system planners and owners of PEV-parking lots. The owners of PEV-parking lots might be interested in maximizing…
Integrated Energy System (IES) is composed of smart grid which is the core system and multi-resource, such as thermal system and oil and gas system etc. IES realizes electricity-gas-cold-heat multi-energy complementary and…
The thesis contains results of development of intellectual fuel supplies planning system. Besides, there have been made an analysis of transportation problem. As basis it was suggested to use all three methods (transportation algorithm, expert and…
In natural gas transmission system, maintaining all load nodes, especially the nodes with gas-fired power plants, within their required operational pressure ranges under N-l failures of pipelines is a challenging problem. In this paper, considering…
The article constructs a continuous dynamic model of gas field development. The dynamic process controls are an increase in total well fund and an increase in production well fund. Three stages of field development are considered in detail. The…
The rising integration between the electricity and natural gas sectors is due to the growth of natural gas fired power plants, performing as producers for the former and consumers for the latter. This linkage between energy carriers also leads to a…
Regional electrical distribution network, natural gas network and heat network are interconnected closely with the combined heat and power (CHP) and electrical boiler (EB) to form the integrated energy system (IES). The distributed natural gas…
Power-to-Gas (P2G) allows for the large scale energy storage which provides a big potential to accommodate the rapid growth of the renewables. In this paper, a long-term optimization model for the co-planning of the electricity and natural gas…
The wind resource is comparatively abundant and the installed capacity of wind power in some areas has increased rapidly in recent years, but the phenomenon of the curtailment of wind power under high penetration is still serious. Power-to-gas (P2G)…
Gas generation and heat storage are playing a prominent role to multi-energy systems (MES), and coordinated planning of integrated electricity, heat and gas infrastructures can highly benefit MES. In this context, a coordinated planning model of MES…
Integrated electricity and gas energy systems are typical integrated energy systems (IES). In order to improve the resilience of IES in extreme events, an optimal placement method of gas turbines and gas storage systems in integrated electricity and…
The variable nature of wind and solar generation could exploit the economic potential of bulk electric energy storage (EES) systems. This paper presents an optimal planning model, a dc optimal power flow (OPF) based multi-period optimization…
Power-to-gas technology provides an effective form of long-term electric storage, which improves the renewable energy utilization. Moreover, power-to-gas can capture the carbon dioxide from the air and reduce the total carbon emission. In this paper,…
The distributed energy system is used as the prototype of the energy Internet, including a variety of forms of energy networks, plenty of distributed equipment and energy storage equipment composed of energy flow, and real-time communication and data…
It is a magnificent method for China's energy and electric power industry to build integrated energy system in the future development. In this paper, a planning model of regional Integrated Energy System is established, which considers P2G and energy…
Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are becoming an indispensable source of energy for residential customers and are contributing to increase the sustainability of energy systems. However, practical methods that can aid customers to make informed…
Owing to higher energy supply efficiency and operational flexibility, integrated energy system (IES), including power, heating and gas systems, will be the primary form of energy supply in the future. However, with the increase of large-scale…
Internet data centers are booming in the last few years, leading to gigantic amount of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. In this paper, a data center microgrid including conventional units, energy storage, and renewable generation is…
Urban energy internet can achieve effective conversions among multiple energies in different formats and deeply integrate several networks, including power, natural gas, transportation networks, etc. Integrated with multiple viewpoints, its concept…
In this paper, we propose a generalized version of the full truckload vehicle routing problem FTVRP in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supply chain. We focus on the supply component that is considered to be the main element of LPG supply chain. The…
Multiple pipeline networks are planned and under construction for long-distance transportation of some petroleum derivatives through a system of pipes typically towards the market areas for consumption. The main purpose of this paper in the form of…
In this paper, an crude oil transportation planning problem for an oil distributor is studied, in which crude oil is transported by tankers and pipelines from an unlimited supply center to a set of customer harbors to satisfy their dynamic demands…
This work is devoted to the analysis, planning and modeling of logistics processes and supply chains. Supply chains can include manufacturing processes and the supply, manufacture, marketing of products, logistic processes of supplying resources. One…
A large number of vessels berth in the anchorage areas of the Istanbul Strait on a daily basis for various reasons including bunkering and supply, port operation, lay-up, waiting for Strait passage, and bad weather conditions. These anchorage areas…
Uncertainty exists in the planning program, so effective evaluation on and prevention from risk help to improve the guidance function of planning. This paper firstly classifies the risky factors into three major categories including exploration…
Today, numerous works conclude that transport seems to be completely coupled to economic growth. Therefore, as a direct consequence of economic development, transport sits today as one of the major final energy consumers and one of the most important…
Power systems are exceedingly faced with extreme events such as natural disasters and deliberate attacks. In comparison, the underground natural gas system is considered less vulnerable to such extreme events. We consider that the overhead power grid…
This paper presents an integrated long-term expansion planning model that considers the interdependency of natural gas and electricity infrastructures. The integrated planning problem determined the least-cost planning schedule of candidate…
Studies conducted by ISO New England have identified risks related to disruptions in fuel-supply chains. The results show that New England continues to face potential reliability risks and exposure to high wholesale electric energy costs. The primary…
Based on the solution of mathematical models of distribution network, natural gas network and transportation network, combined with timing characteristics and multi-scenario technology, the output and load typical values of various power sources in…
In this paper, an optimal planning model is developed for the integrated district energy system to explore the synergy between different energy forms. The individual operating characteristics of electric distribution networks and natural gas pipes…
In modern power systems, it is very important to provide secure and effective generation. Power plants with multiple fuel options are a good solution for this purpose, especially in the electric grids that are highly dependent on the natural gas…