Optimal network flow for the supply side of the energy-water nexus

Clean energy and water are two essential resources that any society must securely deliver. Their usage raises sustainability issues and questions of nations' resilience in face of global changes and mega-trends such as population growth, global climate change, and economic growth. Recently, attention has been paid to the infrastructure systems for water distribution and power transmission and the coupling between them in what is commonly known as the energy-water nexus. Although numerous policy and regulatory agencies have addressed the subject, rarely is it holistically addressed in terms of an integrated engineering system for its management, planning, and regulation as an interdisciplinary concern. This work specifically addresses the supply side of this integrated engineering system framework. It takes as its subject the real-time optimal flows in power and water networks. Significant background literature is brought to bear on this topic including the emerging co-dispatch of power and water and the more well established optimizations for power and water networks individually. The work presents a mathematical optimization program for the co-dispatch of the two commodities for three types of plants: power generation plants, co-production facilities and water production plants. Production costs are minimized subject to capacity, demand and transmission constraints and demonstrated on an illustrative example of modest size developed from standard test cases. On a practical basis, the program can be applied directly in middle eastern countries where water and power distribution are typically under the responsibility of a single utility. Furthermore, the program provides a systematic method of achieving optimal results and can serve as a basis for set-points upon which individual plants can implement their optimal control. In so doing, it makes a supply-side contribution to the ongoing grand-challenge of improving the sustainability of the energy-water nexus.

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