mixed-integer conic programming provides an approach to solving the Optimal Feeder Reconfiguration (OFR) problem with guarantees on the quality of the solution. Integrating renewable generation into the distribution n...
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mixed-integer conic programming provides an approach to solving the Optimal Feeder Reconfiguration (OFR) problem with guarantees on the quality of the solution. Integrating renewable generation into the distribution network and its associated variability renders stochastic OFR, which simultaneously considers several snapshots of the network, a more viable approach. While the established mixed-integerconic program for deterministic OFR can be extended to the stochastic case, the resulting optimization problem that still uses the bus injection relaxation is challenging to solve. This paper proposes a new mixedintegerconic optimization of the flow pattern for solving the stochastic OFR. The new optimization framework exploits the perspective reformulation to obtain a tighter relaxation for stochastic OFR, which improves computational performance, and a feasibility pump heuristic to give a feasible solution. The mixedinteger optimization of the flow pattern can also provide an initial solution to the mixedintegerconic program employing the bus injection relaxation, giving rise to a hierarchical solution approach. Numerical results on stochastic OFR show that the hierarchical approach provides much-improved system performance compared to solutions considering a single snapshot. In addition, the proposed feasibility pump heuristic gives rise to network configurations close to global optimality in several test instances.
This article presents the two-level service restoration problem, which involves finding a reconfigured network suitable for serving the loads while a fault affecting some components is attended to. The first stage min...
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This article presents the two-level service restoration problem, which involves finding a reconfigured network suitable for serving the loads while a fault affecting some components is attended to. The first stage minimizes the actual branch overload in the reconfigured network. In contrast, the second stage chooses the network structure that maintains an acceptable voltage profile while preserving the overload level of the first stage. The two-level solution paradigm differs from some real-life implementations of service restoration programs based on the secure flow pattern concept, which employs successive branch openings to minimize a load balancing index. The proposed two-level service restoration problem is solved using a sequence of two mixed-integerconic programs, for which solvers that guarantee global optimality are available. The presented perspective reformulation combines tight relaxations in mixed-integer conic programming with the poly-hedral representation to expedite the search for the reconfigured network. Numerical results are reported on networks that have over 900 switchable branches. The results demonstrate that while the secure flow pattern implementation relying on branch opening provides results close to the globally optimal load balancing, much improvement to the actual branch overloads and voltage profile is attained from the proposed two-level service restoration problem.
The worsening wildfires due to intensified climate variability increases the risk of both unplanned power outages as well as planned power line de-energizations. It is because wildfires cause thermal stress on overhea...
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The worsening wildfires due to intensified climate variability increases the risk of both unplanned power outages as well as planned power line de-energizations. It is because wildfires cause thermal stress on overhead conductors, which harms the mechanical properties of overhead distribution lines. This article proposes a proactive strategy for improving the operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities of power distribution networks under progressive wildfire conditions. Dynamic heat balance equations are used to characterize the effect of wildfire on the overhead line conductors. The optimal dynamic reconfiguration of the distribution system and the operation of backup generators are considered as tools to minimize the curtailed loads while maintaining the maximum flow of current through the lines within the thermal rating of the line conductors. A mixed-integer conic programming model is adopted to minimize the operation and load curtailment costs. A higher value of lost load is applied to enhance the continuity of the electricity supply to critical loads. The proposed framework is tested under various environmental conditions and wildfire paths using both a modified 33-node network and the practical 83-node Taiwan Power Company's distribution grid. Results show that the proposed approach enhances proactive decision-making for power distribution system operations and increases the resilience of critical loads to wildfire threats.
Due to the absence of utility power grid infrastructure in remote military bases, on-site diesel generators serve as the primary sources for power demands. Increasing efficiency and preventing frequent startup/shutdow...
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Due to the absence of utility power grid infrastructure in remote military bases, on-site diesel generators serve as the primary sources for power demands. Increasing efficiency and preventing frequent startup/shutdown operations of on-site diesel generators are therefore becoming a critical issue for reducing fuel cost. Application of vehicle-to-grid technology in a military-based microgrid embodies potential for significant fuel economy benefits since on-board vehicle generators and energy storage units can serve as mobile power sources that provide higher flexibility for supplying power demands. In addition, energy storage system integration is considered as an alternative solution for increasing on-site diesel generators efficiency and lessening their startup/shutdown operations. This article proposes a three-stage planning procedure for identifying the optimal locations and capacities of energy storage systems, considering multiple operating scenarios via stochastic programming. Note that on-site diesel generators and on-board vehicle generators support plug-and-play functionality, meaning their startup/shutdown operations can be decided in real time. Furthermore, network-constrained ac unit commitment model is used to optimize operation of microgrids. It is assumed that in the tested microgrid systems, several tactical military vehicles with on-board generators and energy storage units are deployed as alternative power sources. The economic merits of vehicle-to-grid implementation and energy storage system integration in a military-based microgrid are validated in the numerical studies.
Bayesian Networks (BNs) represent conditional probability relations among a set of random variables (nodes) in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and have found diverse applications in knowledge discovery. We...
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Bayesian Networks (BNs) represent conditional probability relations among a set of random variables (nodes) in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and have found diverse applications in knowledge discovery. We study the problem of learning the sparse DAG structure of a BN from continuous observational data. The central problem can be modeled as a mixed-integer program with an objective function composed of a convex quadratic loss function and a regularization penalty subject to linear constraints. The optimal solution to this mathematical program is known to have desirable statistical properties under certain conditions. However, the state-of-the-art optimization solvers are not able to obtain provably optimal solutions to the existing mathematical formulations for medium -size problems within reasonable computational times. To address this difficulty, we tackle the problem from both computational and statistical perspectives. On the one hand, we propose a concrete early stopping criterion to terminate the branch-and-bound process in order to obtain a near-optimal solution to the mixed-integer program, and establish the consistency of this approximate solution. On the other hand, we improve the existing formulations by replacing the linear "big -M" constraints that represent the relationship between the continuous and binary indicator variables with second-order conic constraints. Our numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
Bayesian Networks (BNs) represent conditional probability relations among a set of random variables (nodes) in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and have found diverse applications in knowledge discovery. We...
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Bayesian Networks (BNs) represent conditional probability relations among a set of random variables (nodes) in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and have found diverse applications in knowledge discovery. We study the problem of learning the sparse DAG structure of a BN from continuous observational data. The central problem can be modeled as a mixed-integer program with an objective function composed of a convex quadratic loss function and a regularization penalty subject to linear constraints. The optimal solution to this mathematical program is known to have desirable statistical properties under certain conditions. However, the state-of-the-art optimization solvers are not able to obtain provably optimal solutions to the existing mathematical formulations for mediumsize problems within reasonable computational times. To address this difficulty, we tackle the problem from both computational and statistical perspectives. On the one hand, we propose a concrete early stopping criterion to terminate the branch-and-bound process in order to obtain a near-optimal solution to the mixed-integer program, and establish the consistency of this approximate solution. On the other hand, we improve the existing formulations by replacing the linear "big-M" constraints that represent the relationship between the continuous and binary indicator variables with second-order conic constraints. Our numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
In this paper, we investigate potential synergies of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and beam hopping (BH) for multi-beam satellite systems. The coexistence of BH and NOMA provides time-power-domain flexibilitie...
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(纸本)9781728195056
In this paper, we investigate potential synergies of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and beam hopping (BH) for multi-beam satellite systems. The coexistence of BH and NOMA provides time-power-domain flexibilities in mitigating a practical mismatch effect between offered capacity and requested traffic per beam. We formulate the joint BH scheduling and NOMA-based power allocation problem as mixed-integer non-convex programming. We reveal the exponential-conic structure for the original problem, and reformulate the problem to the format of mixed-integer conic programming (MICP), where the optimum can be obtained by exponential-complexity algorithms. A greedy scheme is proposed to solve the problem on a timeslot-by-timeslot basis with polynomial-time complexity. Numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed efficient suboptimal algorithm in reducing the matching error by 62.57% in average over the OMA scheme and achieving a good trade-off between computational complexity and performance compared to the optimal solution.
An important problem in the breeding of livestock, crops, and forest trees is the optimum selection of genotypes that maximize genetic gain. The key constraint in the optimal selection is a convex quadratic constraint...
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An important problem in the breeding of livestock, crops, and forest trees is the optimum selection of genotypes that maximize genetic gain. The key constraint in the optimal selection is a convex quadratic constraint that ensures genetic diversity, so that optimal selection can be cast as a second-order cone programming (SOCP) problem. Yamashita et al. (2015) exploit the structural sparsity of the quadratic constraints and reduce the computation time drastically while attaining the same optimal solution. This paper is concerned with a special case of equal deployment (ED), in which we solve the optimal selection problem with the constraint that contribution of genotypes must either be a fixed size or zero. This involves a form of combinatorial optimization, and the ED problem can be described as a mixed-integer SOCP problem. In this paper, we discuss conic relaxation approaches for the ED problem based on LP (linear programming), SOCP, and SDP (semidefinite programming). We then propose a steepest-ascent method that combines the solution obtained from the conic relaxation with a concept from discrete convex optimization, in order to acquire an approximate solution for the ED problem in a practical time. From numerical tests, we observed that among the LP, SOCP, and SDP relaxation problems, SOCP gave a suitable solution from the viewpoint of the optimality and computation time. The steepest-ascent method starting from the SOCP solution provides high-quality solutions much faster than other existing methods that have been widely used for optimal selection. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper presents a mixed-integer conic programming model (MICP) and a hybrid solution approach based on classical and heuristic optimization techniques, namely matheuristic,to handle long-term distribution systems ...
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This paper presents a mixed-integer conic programming model (MICP) and a hybrid solution approach based on classical and heuristic optimization techniques, namely matheuristic,to handle long-term distribution systems expansion planning (DSEP) problems. The model considers conventional planning actions as well as sizing and allocation of dispatchable/renewable distributed generation (DG) and energy storage devices (ESD).The existing uncertainties in the behavior of renewable sources and demands are characterized by grouping the historical data via the k-means. Since the resulting stochastic MICPis a convex-based formulation, finding the global solution of the problem using a commercial solver is guaranteed while the computational efficiency in simulating the planning problem of medium- or large-scale systems might not be satisfactory. To tackle this issue, the subproblems of the proposed mathematical model are solved iteratively via a specialized optimization technique based on variable neighborhood descent (VND) algorithm. To show the effectiveness of the proposed model and solution technique, the 24-node distribution system is profoundly analyzed, while the applicability of the model is tested on a 182-node distribution *** results reveal the essential requirement of developing specialized solution techniques for large-scale systems where classical optimization techniques are no longer an alternative to solve such planning problems.
Due to the absence of utility power grid infrastructure in remote military bases, on-site diesel generators serve as the primary sources for power demands. Increasing efficiency and preventing frequent startup/shutdow...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728171920
Due to the absence of utility power grid infrastructure in remote military bases, on-site diesel generators serve as the primary sources for power demands. Increasing efficiency and preventing frequent startup/shutdown operations of on-site diesel generators are therefore becoming a critical issue for reducing fuel cost. Application of vehicle-to-grid technology in a military based microgrid has embodies potential for significant fuel economy benefits since vehicles can act as mobile power sources that provides higher flexibility for supplying power demands. In addition, energy storage system integration is considered as an alternative solution for increasing on-site diesel generators efficiency and lessening their start-up/shutdown operations. To further improve fuel economy in a remote military based microgrid, this paper proposes a three-stage planning procedure for identifying the optimal locations and capacities of energy storage systems, considering multiple operating scenarios via stochastic programming. In the first stage, the optimal sizing and siting strategy of storage units for each individual operating scenario is determined. In the second stage, the expected value of optimal locations and capacities of energy storage systems for all the scenarios, which are determined the first stage are obtained as the near-optimal result. In the third stage, with fixed location and capacities of energy storage systems, the optimal operation of microgrid is simulated to demonstrate their benefits. It is assumed that, in the tested microgrid systems, several tactical military vehicles with on-board generators and energy storage units are deployed as alternative power sources. Note that on-site diesel generators and on-board vehicle generators support plug-and-play functionality, meaning their start-up/shutdown operations can be decided in real time. Furthermore, network-constrained AC unit commitment model is used to optimize operation of microgrids. The economic merit
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