Comprehensive optimization of the route, composition and parameters of transporting pipelines for various technological purposes

Abstract

Pipeline transport is the most common in our country and abroad. All of Russia is entangled in a single system of oil and gas transport, which already permeate many European and Asian countries. At the same time, pipelines pass through swamps, pass through mountain ranges, cross seas and lakes. Group and district water pipelines cover thousands of populated areas, heat supply, water supply and sanitation systems cover cities and urban agglomerations. When designing such capital-intensive linear objects, one of the most important tasks is to trace them. The paper proposes to solve this problem in conjunction with the optimization of parameters of pipelines, pump and compressor substations, throttling devices and mating structures. The technique is based on a combination of discrete optimization methods and reflects the real processes of substantiating the structure and parameters of structures. The calculations of real pipeline systems showed high computational and economic efficiency of the proposed approach and its software implementation.