Descripción del proyecto
Aumento de la resiliencia de las redes de gas natural
Las redes de producción y transporte de gas natural son vulnerables a fallos (parciales) que provocan la interrupción del suministro y la emisión de metano. Por ello, se requiere aumentar la resiliencia de esas redes. En el proyecto ResilientGas, que cuenta con el apoyo de las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se pretende desarrollar un nuevo marco que utilice el proceso de decisión de Márkov y el aprendizaje profundo por refuerzo para mejorar la resiliencia de los sistemas integrados de redes de producción y transporte de gas natural. El proyecto, que se centra en el fortalecimiento de estas redes en Europa, aspira a beneficiar a los productores de gas y a los operadores de transporte de gas. Su investigación se llevará a cabo en el Politécnico de Milán (Italia) y, además, contará con los conocimientos industriales de la empresa ARAMIS SRL.
Objetivo
Natural Gas Production and Transmission (NGPT) network systems are vulnerable to (partial) failures, leading to natural gas supply disruptions and methane emissions, thus, calling for enhanced resilience. This project proposes to develop a novel framework for modelling and optimising the resilience of integrated NGPT network systems by employing Markov Decision Process (MDP) frameworks that identify optimal policies for system operation and maintenance. This novel approach allows for incorporating the dynamics of the system, including network topology and functionality changes upon operation and maintenance interventions; thus significantly improves on present-day practices. The MDP model is solved by Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms integrating a novel network capacity model developed using Graph Neural Networks (GNN). For illustration, I consider a European NGPT network comprising of offshore production platforms, subsea pipelines and onshore pipelines exporting the Norwegian gas to Europe. The project outcomes can be beneficial to gas producers and gas transmission operators whose optimal decisions contribute to more resilient natural gas supply for the benefit of Society. The success of ResilientGas hinges on advanced training on network resilience modelling, and on computational intelligence methods such as DRL and GNNs. I will thus need to compliment my own skills with a scientific tradition that is best studied with the team at Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where I will be under the direct supervision of Prof. Enrico Zio, whose research team is internationally recognised to lead the development of advanced tools and techniques for reliability, risk and resilience. A six-month placement in ARAMIS SRL (www.aramis3d.com) a cutting-edge R&D company, is foreseen to complement the research training with industrial practice and first-hand experience in deploying project outcomes, enabling me to position myself as a top researcher in this field.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningreinforcement learning
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gas
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networks
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
20133 Milano
Italia