Optimal Management of a Hydrogen Network in a Petrol Refinery

摘要

This paper discusses different aspects of the optimization of the distribution ofrnhydrogen in a petrol refinery through a network that connects production andrnconsumption plants. Due to the lack of reliable information from the fieldrnmeasurements, a previous stage of data reconciliation is required. The hydrogenrndistribution problem can be formulated as a non-convex NLP one, which implies thernpossibility of local minima if standard non-global NLP algorithms are used. To avoidrnthis situation, a reformulation is proposed in order to convexify the problem. Resultsrncorresponding to data from a refinery are presented.