A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach for the Optimal Design of a District Cooling System

Bingqian Liu, Côme Bissuel, François Courtot, Céline Gicquel, Dominique Quadri

2021

Abstract

A district cooling system is a centralized cooling supply system providing air conditioning to a set of buildings located in the same district. Designing and sizing such a system is very complex, as both the initial construction cost and the operation cost of the cooling system during its entire life must be considered. We first propose a modeling approach aiming at formulating this combinatorial optimization problem as a mixed-integer linear program of tractable size. We then extend a previously published hierarchical decomposition technique in order to find the optimal solution in an efficient way. Finally, we provide preliminary computational results based on a real-life case study located in China.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Liu B., Bissuel C., Courtot F., Gicquel C. and Quadri D. (2021). A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach for the Optimal Design of a District Cooling System.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-485-5, pages 317-328. DOI: 10.5220/0010220403170328

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores21,
author={Bingqian Liu and Côme Bissuel and François Courtot and Céline Gicquel and Dominique Quadri},
title={A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach for the Optimal Design of a District Cooling System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2021},
pages={317-328},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010220403170328},
isbn={978-989-758-485-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach for the Optimal Design of a District Cooling System
SN - 978-989-758-485-5
AU - Liu B.
AU - Bissuel C.
AU - Courtot F.
AU - Gicquel C.
AU - Quadri D.
PY - 2021
SP - 317
EP - 328
DO - 10.5220/0010220403170328