@misc{PetkovicChenGamrathetal., author = {Petkovic, Milena and Chen, Ying and Gamrath, Inken and Gotzes, Uwe and Hadjidimitriou, Natalia Selini and Zittel, Janina and Xu, Xiaofei and Koch, Thorsten}, title = {A Hybrid Approach for High Precision Prediction of Gas Flows}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-73525}, abstract = {About 20\% of the German energy demand is supplied by natural gas. Ad- ditionally, for about twice the amount Germany serves as a transit country. Thereby, the German network represents a central hub in the European natural gas transport network. The transport infrastructure is operated by so-called transmissions system operators or TSOs. The number one priority of the TSOs is to ensure security of supply. However, the TSOs have no knowledge of the intentions and planned actions of the shippers (traders). Open Grid Europe (OGE), one of Germany's largest TSO, operates a high- pressure transport network of about 12.000 km length. Since flexibility and security of supply is of utmost importance to the German Energy Transition ("Energiewende") especially with the introduction of peak-load gas power stations, being able to predict in- and out-flow of the network is of great importance. In this paper we introduce a new hybrid forecast method applied to gas flows at the boundary nodes of a transport network. The new method employs optimized feature minimization and selection. We use a combination of an FAR, LSTM DNN and mathematical programming to achieve robust high quality forecasts on real world data for different types of network nodes. Keywords: Gas Forecast, Time series, Hybrid Method, FAR, LSTM, Mathematical Optimisation}, language = {en} } @book{HadjidimitriouFrangioniLodietal., author = {Hadjidimitriou, Natalia Selini and Frangioni, Antonio and Lodi, Andrea and Koch, Thorsten}, title = {Mathematical Optimization for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks}, volume = {4}, editor = {Hadjidimitriou, Natalia Selini and Frangioni, Antonio and Lodi, Andrea and Koch, Thorsten}, publisher = {Springer}, isbn = {978-3-030-57441-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-57442-0}, language = {en} } @article{Dell’AmicoHadjidimitriouKochetal., author = {Dell'Amico, M. and Hadjidimitriou, Natalia Selini and Koch, Thorsten and Petkovic, Milena}, title = {Forecasting Natural Gas Flows in Large Networks}, series = {Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data. MOD 2017.}, volume = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, journal = {Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data. MOD 2017.}, number = {vol 10710}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72926-8_14}, pages = {158 -- 171}, abstract = {Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel since it emits the lowest amount of other remains after being burned. Over the years, natural gas usage has increased significantly. Accurate forecasting is crucial for maintaining gas supplies, transportation and network stability. This paper presents two methodologies to identify the optimal configuration o parameters of a Neural Network (NN) to forecast the next 24 h of gas flow for each node of a large gas network. In particular the first one applies a Design Of Experiments (DOE) to obtain a quick initial solution. An orthogonal design, consisting of 18 experiments selected among a total of 4.374 combinations of seven parameters (training algorithm, transfer function, regularization, learning rate, lags, and epochs), is used. The best result is selected as initial solution of an extended experiment for which the Simulated Annealing is run to find the optimal design among 89.100 possible combinations of parameters. The second technique is based on the application of Genetic Algorithm for the selection of the optimal parameters of a recurrent neural network for time series forecast. GA was applied with binary representation of potential solutions, where subsets of bits in the bit string represent different values for several parameters of the recurrent neural network. We tested these methods on three municipal nodes, using one year and half of hourly gas flow to train the network and 60 days for testing. Our results clearly show that the presented methodologies bring promising results in terms of optimal configuration of parameters and forecast error.}, language = {en} }