Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Design of hydrogen pipeline delivery networks with survivability and uncertainty: a case study
Chien-Wei Chen, Yueyue Fan, and Joan Ogden. University of California-Davis
On one hand, centralized hydrogen production with pipeline delivery mode is more cost effective in the long term. On the other hand, such configuration is usually more vulnerable to natural disasters, malicious attacks, human errors, and unexpected supply shortage. It is important to design a cost-effective hydrogen supply system with considerations of survivability and uncertainty. However, no study in hydrogen technology and system planning has considered reliability issues so far.
To enhance the survivability of future hydrogen infrastructure system, a two-stage stochastic programming model is introduced to design a hydrogen pipeline delivery network considering future demand/supply uncertainties, potential network link failures, and geographic variation or existing facility impedance. By using Southern California settings [Lin et. al 2007] as a case study, the simulation results show that the proposed model can enhance the survivability of hydrogen pipeline delivery network with reasonable extra costs.
To enhance the survivability of future hydrogen infrastructure system, a two-stage stochastic programming model is introduced to design a hydrogen pipeline delivery network considering future demand/supply uncertainties, potential network link failures, and geographic variation or existing facility impedance. By using Southern California settings [Lin et. al 2007] as a case study, the simulation results show that the proposed model can enhance the survivability of hydrogen pipeline delivery network with reasonable extra costs.
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