Pattern-Based Set Partitioning Algorithm for the Integrated Sustainable Operation of a District Heating Network

Sang Hwa Song and Taesu Cheong
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Sang Hwa Song: Graduate School of Logistics, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Taesu Cheong: School of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-15

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.

Keywords: district heating network; unit commitment problem; network flow problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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