Issue |
Matériaux & Techniques
Volume 107, Number 5, 2019
Materials and Society: The Circular Economy (SAM13)
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Article Number | 502 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/mattech/2019025 | |
Published online | 09 January 2020 |
Regular Article
A quadratic programming model for the optimization of off-gas networks in integrated steelworks
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, TeCIP Institute ICT-COISP,
Pisa, Italy
* e-mail: v.colla@santannapisa.it
Received:
20
August
2019
Accepted:
26
November
2019
The European steel industry is constantly promoting developments, which can increase efficiency and lower the environmental impact of the steel production processes. In particular, a strong focus refers to the minimization of the energy consumption. This paper presents part of the work of the research project entitled “Optimization of the management of the process gas network within the integrated steelworks” (GASNET), which aims at developing a decision support system supporting energy managers and other concerned technical personnel in the implementation of an optimized off-gases management and exploitation considering environmental and economic objectives. A mathematical model of the network as a capacitated digraph with costs on arcs is proposed and an optimization problem is formulated. The objective of the optimization consists in minimizing the wastes of process gases and maximizing the incomes. Several production constraints need to be accounted. In particular, different types of gases are mixing in the same network. The constraints that model the mixing make the problem computationally difficult: it is a non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). Two formulations of the problem are presented: the first one is a minimum cost flow problem, which is a linear program and is thus computationally fast to solve, but suitable only for a single gas network. The second formulation is a quadratically constrained quadratic program, which is slower, but covers more general cases, such as the ones, which are characterized by the interaction among multiple gas networks. A user-friendly graphical interface has been developed and tests over existing plant networks are performed and analyzed.
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