Arrangement and method for optimizing the operation of a supply network

US8725480B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABB TECHNOLOGY AG · CH

Inventors

• Frederik Blank · Heidelberg, DE
• Markus Gauder · Hockenheim, DE
• Werner Schmidt · Chemnitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 27, 2012
• Grant date: May 13, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An exemplary arrangement for determining set point values for controllable elements in a network that includes a management system for driving elements of the network and a plurality of processing units. The arrangement also includes at least one simulation unit with a simulation environment for generating a hydraulic simulation model of the network, and an optimization unit with an optimization environment for converting and simplifying the hydraulic simulation model. The optimization environment receives exported data from the simulation environment, generates a simplified optimization model from the exported data through an algorithm that is implemented through program code executed by a processor, and uses the optimization model and at least one of received additional data and measurement and field data to calculate optimized flow charts as temporally changeable set point value series for driving elements in the network and providing the driven elements to the management system.