Modeling and Optimization of Interdependent Energy Infrastructures

This book opens up new ways to develop mathematical models and optimization methods for interdependent energy infrastructures, ranging from the electricity network, natural gas network, district heating network, and electrified transportation network. The authors provide methods to help analyze, design, and operate the integrated energy system more efficiently and reliably, and constitute a foundational basis for decision support tools for the next-generation energy network. Chapters present new operation models of the coupled energy infrastructure and the application of new methodologies including convex optimization, robust optimization, and equilibrium constrained optimization. Four appendices provide students and researchers with helpful tutorials on advanced optimization methods: Basics of Linear and Conic Programs; Formulation Tricks in Integer Programming; Basics of Robust Optimization; Equilibrium Problems. This book provides theoretical foundation and technical applications for energy system integration, and the the interdisciplinary research presented will be useful to readers in many fields including electrical engineering, civil engineering, and industrial engineering.

Dr. Jianhui Wang is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Wang is the Principal Investigator for a multitude of energy-related research projects focused on smart grid, microgrids, power system operation and control, renewable integration, grid resilience and cybersecurity. He has been invited to give tutorials and keynote speeches at major conferences including IEEE ISGT, IEEE SmartGridComm, IEEE SEGE, IEEE HPSC and IGEC-XI.

Dr. Wang has authored and/or co-authored more than 300 journal and conference publications, which have been cited for more than 14,300 times by his peers. He is an associate editor of Journal of Energy Engineering, an editorial board member of Applied Energy and IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. He served as guest editor for a special issue of the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine on Electrification of Transportation, which won an APEX Grand Award. Dr. Wang also served as the editor of Artech House Publishers’ Power Engineering Book Series, and as the Technical Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference.

Dr. Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a guest editor of a Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on power grid resilience. He is the recipient of the IEEE PES Power System Operation Committee Prize Paper Award in 2015 and the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications.

Dr. Wang is a 2018 Clarivate Analytics highly cited researcher for production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

Wei Wei is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. His research interests include applied optimization and energy system economics. He was a visiting scholar with Cornell University in 2014 and with Harvard University in 2015, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a laureate of the Young Elite Scientist Award of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering. He has published more than 90 research articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and holds two journal paper awards and a best conference paper award.