Abstract
District heating is a system of distributing heated water from centralized facilities to local homes and buildings. In this paper, we model the distribution planning problem as a supply chain planning problem and propose an explicit column generation algorithm to handle large-scale data and nonlinear constraints. The algorithm is successfully applied to a Korean district heating company and computational experiments show that the integrated operation of the district heating network increases the total profit compared to previous isolated networks.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2774 |
Journal | Sustainability (Switzerland) |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 Aug 6 |
Keywords
- District heating network
- Network flow problem
- Unit commitment problem
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law