Nonlinear optimization of district heating networks

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DOI10.1007/S11081-020-09549-0zbMATH Open1492.90174arXiv1910.06453OpenAlexW3086535235MaRDI QIDQ2139138FDOQ2139138

Richard Krug, Volker Mehrmann, Martin Schmidt

Publication date: 17 May 2022

Published in: Optimization and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a complementarity-constrained nonlinear optimization model for the time-dependent control of district heating networks. The main physical aspects of water and heat flow in these networks are governed by nonlinear and hyperbolic 1d partial differential equations. In addition, a pooling-type mixing model is required at the nodes of the network to treat the mixing of different water temperatures. This mixing model can be recast using suitable complementarity constraints. The resulting problem is a mathematical program with complementarity constraints subject to nonlinear partial differential equations describing the physics. In order to obtain a tractable problem, we apply suitable discretizations in space and time, resulting in a finite-dimensional optimization problem with complementarity constraints for which we develop a suitable reformulation with improved constraint regularity. Moreover, we propose an instantaneous control approach for the discretized problem, discuss practically relevant penalty formulations, and present preprocessing techniques that are used to simplify the mixing model at the nodes of the network. Finally, we use all these techniques to solve realistic instances. Our numerical results show the applicability of our techniques in practice.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06453





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