Collaborative Research: Planning for Uncertainty in Coupled Water-Power Distribution Networks

合作研究：水电耦合配电网的不确定性规划

• 批准号: 2222097
• 负责人: Vijay Gupta
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222097&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; Uncertainty; Coupled

The goal of this project is to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks at the physical scale of neighborhoods or cities. Electricity-consuming water network equipment such as water pumps can provide flexibility to electricity networks by shifting pumping load. Flexibility provided by the water network to the power network increases power network reliability, in turn increasing water network reliability. Further, increased flexibility in power network operation reduces operational costs and can help electric power distribution network incorporate higher penetrations of renewable energy resources. The project will develop operational planning and real-time control strategies for coupled water-power networks under uncertainty, develop economic contracts for flexibility, assess network resilience to new operational/control strategies and economic mechanisms, and update these new approaches to maintain or improve upon current levels of resilience. This research will help improve the economics, environmental impact, reliability, and resilience of coupled water-power systems. Further, the research will have practical impacts through collaboration with electric and water utility partners. The team will disseminate their results to the research community and practitioners, develop curriculum materials, and provide multidisciplinary research experiences for underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students.The project will contribute to the fields of optimization, economic contract design, resilience modeling, electric power systems, and water networks. Task 1 will develop approaches for advancing the state-of-the-art in coupled water-power network modeling and solving the challenging stochastic optimization problems that arise in the coupled operation of the two networks. Task 2 will develop approaches to design economic contracts to ensure coordination of the water and electric companies and incentivization of the customers. Task 3 will advance the modeling and analysis of equity in who faces infrastructure vulnerability from hazards. While previous work developed a general framework for measuring inequity in the loss of essential services across a population, this has not been integrated with detailed infrastructure performance models. This project will make this critical linkage, advancing the ability to consider potential inequities in vulnerability that may inadvertently arise from interventions intended to improve system performance. This is critical to avoid having negative, unintended consequences on vulnerable sub-populations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的目的是开发在社区或城市的物理规模上耦合的市政饮用水和电力配电网络联合运作的方法。耗电耗尽的水网设备（例如水泵）可以通过转移泵负荷来为电力网络提供灵活性。水网络向电力网络提供的灵活性提高了电力网络的可靠性，进而提高了水网络的可靠性。此外，电力网络操作的灵活性提高可降低运营成本，并可以帮助电源分配网络融合更高的可再生能源渗透率。该项目将在不确定性下为耦合的水力网络制定运营计划和实时控制策略，为灵活性开发经济合同，评估对新的运营/控制策略和经济机制的网络弹性，并更新这些新方法，以维持或改善当前的弹性水平。这项研究将有助于改善耦合水力系统的经济学，环境影响，可靠性和弹性。此外，这项研究将通过与电力和水电合作伙伴的合作产生实际影响。该团队将把他们的结果传播给研究社区和从业人员，开发课程材料，并为代表性不足的研究生和本科生提供多学科的研究经验。该项目将有助于优化，经济合同设计，弹性设计，电力电力系统和水网络的领域。任务1将开发方法，以推进耦合的水力网络建模中最新的方法，并解决两个网络耦合操作中出现的具有挑战性的随机优化问题。任务2将开发设计经济合同的方法，以确保水和电力公司的协调并激励客户。任务3将推进对危害的基础设施脆弱性的建模和分析。 尽管以前的工作开发了一个一般框架，用于衡量人群中基本服务损失的不平等，但尚未与详细的基础设施绩效模型整合在一起。该项目将使这种关键的联系，提高考虑脆弱性潜在不平等的能力，这可能是由旨在改善系统性能的干预措施而产生的。这对于避免对脆弱的子人群产生负面的，意外的后果至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。