scholarly journals Identification of gas pipelines hydraulic efficiency coefficients

2019 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Belevitin ◽  
Victoria G. Ryzhkova

This study investigates the identification of non-measureable parameters of the gas transmission system (gas pipelines hydraulic efficiency coefficients). The problem statement and solution procedure are presented. The original problem is divided into two interrelated components: the nonlinear optimization problem and the temperature calculation. The nonlinear optimization problem is solved using the Successive Linear Programming (SLP) method. The problems of insufficiency of measurements and multiplicity of solutions are described, and appropriate approaches are proposed (introduction of additional subcriteria and uniting gas pipelines into groups). Identification of gas pipelines hydraulic efficiency coefficients for gas transmission systems of various complexity has been performed using the given algorithm.

Author(s):  
Sakitha Kumarage ◽  
Mehmet Yildirimoglu ◽  
Mohsen Ramezani ◽  
Zuduo Zheng

Demand management aiming to optimize system cost while ensuring user compliance in an urban traffic network is a challenging task. This paper introduces a cooperative demand redistribution strategy to optimize network performance through the retiming of departure times within a limited time window. The proposed model minimizes the total time spent in a two-region urban network by incurring minimal disruption to travelers’ departure schedules. Two traffic models based on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) are jointly implemented to redistribute demand and analyze travelers’ reaction. First, we establish equilibrium conditions via a day-to-day assignment process, which allows travelers to find their preferred departure times. The trip-based MFD model that incorporates individual traveler attributes is implemented in the day-to-day assignment, and it is conjugated with a network-level detour ratio model to incorporate the effect of congestion in individual traveler route choice. This allows us to consider travelers with individual preferences on departure times influenced by desired arrival times, trip lengths, and earliness and lateness costs. Second, we develop a nonlinear optimization problem to minimize the total time spent considering both observed and unobserved demand—that is, travelers opting in and out of the demand management platform. The accumulation-based MFD model that builds on aggregated system representation is implemented as part of the constraints in the nonlinear optimization problem. The results confirm the resourcefulness of the model to address complex two-region traffic dynamics and to increase overall performance by reaching a constrained system optimum scenario while ensuring the applicability at both full and partial user compliance conditions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aslam ◽  
Saminathan Balamurali ◽  
Chi-Hyuck Jun ◽  
Batool Hussain

In this paper, we present the designing of the skip-lot sampling plan including the re-inspection  called SkSP-R. The plan parameters of the proposed plan are determined through a  nonlinear optimization problem by minimizing the average sample number satisfying both the producer's risk and the consumer's risks. The proposed plan is shown to perform better than the existing sampling plans in terms of the average sample number. The application of the proposed plan is explained with the help of illustrative examples.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka C. Cheok ◽  
Hongxing Hu ◽  
Nan K. Loh

This paper describes a technique for modeling and identifying a class of nonlinear servomechanism systems with stick-slip friction. The physics of the stick-slip friction is considered in modeling the process. Identification of the system parameters is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem. A modified simplex algorithm is proposed as the optimization procedure. The difficulties encountered in choosing identification algorithm and input signals for the problem are discussed. A simulation example of a servomotor system is provided.


2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 1087-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Chin Chang ◽  
Rung Fang Chang

As electricity demands and power transactions continuously increase, it becomes vulnerable to voltage instability for power systems, generally incurred by over-utilized facilities or any contingency. The transmission system loading margin (LM) enhancement problem with Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) installation can be formulated as a mixed discrete-continuous nonlinear optimization problem (MDCP); due to the complexity of the MDCP, the computing burden might be very heavy. In the paper, the proposed ordinal optimization (OO) based STATCOM installation method is applied to the MDCP to solve for good enough solutions rather than the best solution, so as to largely reduce the computation burden. In the method, the crude method is first used to solve the MDCP and, based on OO theory, the exact method is then used to determine the good enough solutions. Finally, the good enough solution, as uses the fewest STATCOM device units for installation and makes the power system able to provide the required LM, is recommended for network reinforcement.


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