Design of a wind farm collection network when several cable types are available
针对Hatch公司提出的实际问题，研究在已知风机位置和可用电缆类型下，设计风电场集电网络，提出混合整数二次规划模型并线性化，利用实际数据验证模型有效性。
In this article we consider a real-world problem submitted to us by the Hatch company. This problem consists of designing a collection network for a wind farm, assuming that the locations of the turbines and the potential cables are known, several cable types are available, and the cost of the energy that dissipates through the cables is known. We propose a mixed integer quadratic programme to model the network design problem and then linearize the quadratic programme because the latter is too difficult to solve using a standard mathematical programming software. We describe several classes of inequalities that strengthen the resulting mixed integer linear programme. Finally we use real-world data supplied by Hatch to carry out computational experiments with several versions of our model.