Cost Optimal Selection of Storage Tanks in LPG Vaporization Station英文文献资料.docVIP

Natural Resources, 2012, 3, 164-169 /10.4236/nr.2012.33021 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/nr) Cost Optimal Selection of Storage Tanks in LPG Vaporization Station Guohua Shi Energy and Power Engineering Department, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China. Email: lucksgh@126.com Received May 4 , 2010; revised June 3 , 2011; accepted June 17 , 2011 th rd th ABSTRACT Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an important urban gas source in China. Before supplied to customers by pipeline supply systems, LPG is stored in tanks in LPG vaporization stations. Designers usually decide the number and the size of storage tanks by their experience during constructions of vaporization stations. These decisions are usually not best and most economical. To solve the problem, a compact mixed integer nonlinear programming model has been de- veloped in this paper. The objective is to minimize annual storage cost of the vaporization station. The model has been transformed into a general nonlinear programming model by transforming integer variables and 0 - 1 variables into con- tinuous variables. One LPG vaporization station was taken as an example to illustrate the usage of the model. The results show that the optimal storage scheme can be determined accurately and quickly by the model and about 15% of storage cost can be saved every year after optimization. Keywords: Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Storage Tank; Cost Optimization; Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming 1. Introduction gas distribution network. Obviously, storage tanks ensuring reliable gas supply are key equipments of an LPG vaporization station. Dur- ing constructions of LPG vaporization stations, designers usually decide the number and the size of storage tanks by their experience. Due to various sizes of LPG storage tanks, h