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Deep learning for spatio-temporal supply anddemand forecasting in natural gas transmission networks

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  • Germany is the largest market for natural gas in the European Union, with an annual consumption of approx. 95 billion cubic meters. Germany's high-pressure gas pipeline network is roughly 40,000 km long, which enables highly fluctuating quantities of gas to be transported safely over long distances. Considering that similar amounts of gas are also transshipped through Germany to other EU states, it is clear that Germany's gas transport system is essential to the European energy supply. Since the average velocity of gas in a pipeline is only 25km/h, an adequate high-precision, high-frequency forecasting of supply and demand is crucial for efficient control and operation of such a transmission network. We propose a deep learning model based on spatio-temporal convolutional neural networks (DLST) to tackle the problem of gas flow forecasting in a complex high-pressure transmission network. Experiments show that our model effectively captures comprehensive spatio-temporal correlations through modeling gas networks and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks on real-world data sets by at least 21%. The results demonstrate that the proposed model can deal with complex nonlinear gas network flow forecasting with high accuracy and effectiveness.
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Author:Milena PetkovicORCiD, Thorsten KochORCiD, Janina ZittelORCiD
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):Energy Science and Engineering
Year of first publication:2021
Preprint:urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-81221
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.932
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