Planning the production of a fleet of domestic combined heat and power generators

Bosman, M.G.C. and Bakker, V. and Molderink, A. and Hurink, J.L. and Smit, G.J.M. (2011) Planning the production of a fleet of domestic combined heat and power generators. European Journal of Operational Research, 216 (1). pp. 140-151. ISSN 0377-2217

PDF
Restricted to UT campus only: Request a copy
1081Kb

Abstract:	This paper describes a planning problem, arising in the energy supply chain, that deals with the planning of the production runs of micro combined heat and power (microCHP) appliances installed in houses, cooperating in a fleet. Two types of this problem are described. The first one is the Single House Planning Problem (SHPP), where the focus is on supplying heat in the household. The second one combines many microCHPs into a Fleet Planning Problem (FPP) and focuses on the mutual electricity output, while still considering the local heat demand in the individual households. The problem is modeled as an ILP. For practical use a local search method is developed for the FPP, based on a dynamic programming formulation of the SHPP.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2011 Elsevier
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming (DMMP) Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/78084
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2011.07.033
Export this item as:	BibTeX EndNote HTML Citation Reference Manager

Show download statistics for this publication

Repository Staff Only: item control page