El programa de doctorado en Ingeniería Industrial y el GIR en Control y Supervisión de Procesos (Dpto. de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática) colaboran en la organización conjunta de esta conferencia:
Título: “TOWARDS ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR POWER-INTENSIVE PROCESSED UNDER TIME-SENSITIVE ELECTRICITY PRICES”
Ponente: Carlos Alberto Méndez (profesor de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral e investigador independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina)
Fecha/hora: Miércoles 20 diciembre de 2023, 12:00h
Lugar: Sala de Grados 2304, Sede Mergelina de la Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales
Resumen ponencia: The competitiveness of power-intensive industries is highly tied to their ability to adjust production according to time-sensitive electricity prices. A classic example are Air Separation Units (ASUs), where large, electric-power air compressors are used to reach cryogenic temperatures. Due to the volatility nature of the energy markets, there is significant opportunity to reduce production costs by scheduling production during the cheapest hours of the day. Mixed-integer linear model (MILP) based on a discrete-time scheduling formulation can be used to represent and optimize operating decisions for any process under time-sensitive energy prices. The main goal is to find an optimal production schedule over a given time horizon that guarantees product demand satisfaction and that minimizes total energy cost. The formulation can be used to model transitions between operating modes results in a very efficient and robust model. The model is applied to a simplified industrial case. The results show optimal solutions for the proposed methodology with modest computational effort.