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Natural gas industry has been confronted with big challenges: great growth in demand, investments on new GSUs – gas supply units, and efficient technical system management. The right number of GSUs, their best location on networks and the optimal allocation to loads is a decision problem that can be formulated as a combinatorial programming problem, with the objective of minimizing system expenses. Our emphasis is on the formulation, interpretation and development of a solution algorithm that will analyze the trade-off between infrastructure investment expenditure and operating system costs. The location model was applied to a 12 node natural gas network, and its effectiveness was tested in five different operating scenarios.
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Nogueira, T., Vale, Z. (2012). Optimal Location of Gas Supply Units in Natural Gas System Network. In: Sorokin, A., Rebennack, S., Pardalos, P., Iliadis, N., Pereira, M. (eds) Handbook of Networks in Power Systems II. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23406-4_3
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