Patent ID: 9576259
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06Q,Y04S

Claim:
1. A system for operating generator resources comprising: a plurality of input information sources to provide input information including at least one of generator parameters, energy output requirements, fuel cost, fuel availability, and a maintenance schedule; a modeling system is configured to create a resource model based on the input information wherein creating the resource model includes linearizing a quadratic objective function and linearizing a quadratic gas constraints function, the resource model operable to generate an optimized operating schedule, a fuel mix and a fuel allocation plan, the modeling system couplable to the input information sources to receive the input information; a system controller operative to execute the operating schedule and fuel allocation plan, and coupled to the modeling system; a plurality of multi-fuel power generators coupled to and controlled by the system controller; and a fuels supply coupled to the system controller to supply fuels to the plurality of multi-fuel power generators, wherein the system controller is configured to control the plurality of multi-fuel power generators to meet energy output requirements using the optimized operating schedule, the fuel mix, and the fuel allocation plan, and wherein the modeling system is configured to fix the fuel mix by setting a fuel mix ratio and binary decision variables based on values obtained from a mixed-integer linear programming model and based on quadratic constraint programming with a quadratic objective function without linearization and a quadratic gas constraints function without linearization.