Research Article

Modeling Gas Compressor Station Operation to Minimize Fuel Costs for Surge Zone Protection

Table 1

A comparison of the proposed work with the existing works.

The workInclusion in the pipeline networkSurge zone protection functionalityUsing a lot of previous dataUtility/complexity tradeoff

Mak et al. [11]YesNoYesNo
Zlotnik et al. [13]YesNoYesNo
Amin et al. [15]YesYesYesYes
Torrisi et al. [17]YesYesYesNo
Zhang et al. [20]YesNoYesYes
Proposed workYesYesNoYes