Optimal Compression in Natural Gas Networks: A Geometric Programming Approach

DOI10.1109/TCNS.2014.2367360MaRDI QIDQ5358442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sidhant Misra, Michael W. Fisher, Scott Backhaus, Russell Bent, Michael Chertkov, Feng Pan

Publication date 21 September 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2668

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Dynamic programming (90C39)

Abstract: Natural gas transmission pipelines are complex systems whose flow characteristics are governed by challenging non-linear physical behavior. These pipelines extend over hundreds and even thousands of miles. Gas is typically injected into the system at a constant rate, and a series of compressors are distributed along the pipeline to boost the gas pressure to maintain system pressure and throughput. These compressors consume a portion of the gas, and one goal of the operator is to control the compressor operation to minimize this consumption while satisfying pressure constraints at the gas load points. The optimization of these operations is computationally challenging. Many pipelines simply rely on the intuition and prior experience of operators to make these decisions. Here, we present a new geometric programming approach for optimizing compressor operation in natural gas pipelines. Using models of real natural gas pipelines, we show that the geometric programming algorithm consistently outperforms approaches that mimic existing state of practice.

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