Title
Planning the production of a fleet of domestic combined heat and power generators.
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. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ejor.2011.07.033
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Scheduling,Complexity,Microgeneration
Dynamic programming,Mathematical optimization,Electricity,Scheduling (computing),Micro combined heat and power,Microgeneration,Local search (optimization),Energy supply,Operations management,Mathematics,Electricity generation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
216
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.57
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maurice G. C. Bosman1445.40
Vincent Bakker2394.64
Albert Molderink3496.70
Johann Hurink442242.84
Gerard J. M. Smit588889.18