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The optimal selection, sizing, and location of small-scale technologies within a grid-connected distributed energy system (DES) can contribute to reducing carbon emissions, consumer costs, and network imbalances. This is the first study to…
This study suggests a novel two-stage Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming model considering uncertainty related to implementation of carbon dioxide emission regulatory policies, which are carbon trading and emission taxing and can change…
Investigation of energy systems integrated with green chemical conversion, and in particular combi-nation of green hydrogen and synthetic methanation, is still a scarce subject in the literature in terms of optimal design and operation for…
Microgrids offer a promising paradigm for integrating distributed energy resources, bolstering energy resilience, and reducing the impact of blackouts. However, their inherent decentralization and dynamic operation present substantial…
The problem of joint coordination of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging and grid power control is to minimize both PEVs charging cost and energy generation cost while meeting both residential and PEVs' power demands and suppressing…
This research explores the joint expansion planning of power and water distribution networks, which exhibit interdependence at various levels. We specifically focus on the dependency arising from the power consumption of pumps and develop…
We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total elapsed…
This brief deals with the satisfaction of the daily cooling demand by a hybrid system that consists of a vapour-compression refrigeration cycle and a thermal energy storage (TES) unit, based on phase change materials. The addition of the…
This paper addresses the optimal operation problem of a PV-diesel microgrid considering grid blackouts, which is a usual case of discontinuous power supply in developing countries. The model of a grid-connected PV-diesel microgrid is…
This work presents a whole-year simulation study on nonlinear mixed-integer Model Predictive Control (MPC) for a complex thermal energy supply system which consists of a heat pump, stratified water storages, free cooling facilities, and a…
The goal to decarbonize the energy sector has led to increased research in modeling and optimizing multi-energy systems. One of the most promising techniques for modeling (multi-)energy optimization problems is mixed-integer programming…
Almost climate neutral buildings are one of the core goals in terms of sustainability. Beside the support of the necessary design decisions for an integrated, interoperable, ecological and economical operation of building energy systems,…
Due to a substantial growth in the world waterborne trade volumes and drastic changes in the global climate accounted for CO2 emissions, the shipping companies need to escalate their operational and energy efficiency. Therefore, a…
Governments across the world are planning to increase the share of renewables in their energy systems. The siting of new wind and solar power plants requires close coordination with grid planning, and hence co-optimization of investment in…
Mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) arise in domains such as energy systems, process engineering, and transportation, and are notoriously difficult to solve at scale due to the interplay of discrete decisions and nonlinear…
This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…
Given the growing concern of reducing CO2 emissions, it is desirable to identify, for a given separation carried out through a membrane cascade, the optimum design that yields the lowest energy consumption. Nevertheless, designing a…
Oil products are the main source of energy in the world today. Distribution of these products is one of the main issues in the industry. The main tools for this work are pipelines, and along with it, railways, shipping and roads are also…
The microgrids design for remote locations represents one of the most important and critical applications of the microgrid concept. It requires the correct sizing and the proper utilization of the different sources to guarantee the…
With the addition of large numbers of distributed energy resources (DERs) to distribution networks comes the increasing risk that their operation may violate the safety constraints of these networks. The problem considered in this paper is…