RZRM: Research
Efficient Operation of Natural Gas Transmission Networks
Funding: CONACYT, Installation Project Program (Grant. No. I32827-A, 1999-2000)
UANL, Scientific and Technological Research Support Program (Grant. No. CA363-00, 2000-2001)
Dates: 1999 - 2001
People: Dr. Roger Z. Ríos (PISIS - UANL)
Principal Investigator

Yanet Villalobos (PISIS - UANL)
Graduate Research Assistant

Publications:
Journal Papers
[1] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, S. Wu, L. R. Scott, and E. A. Boyd. A reduction technique for natural gas transmission network optimization problems. Annals of Operations Research, 117(1-4):217-234, 2002.
Conference Proceedings Papers
[2] S. Kim, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and E. A. Boyd. Minimizing fuel usage on gas pipelines: A network based algorithm for looped topologies. In Proceedings of the 2000 NSF Design and Manufacturing Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada, January 2000.
[3] S. Wu, L. R. Scott, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and E. A. Boyd. A network reduction technique for natural gas pipeline networks. In Proceedings of the 10th Latin-American Conference on Operations Research and Systems, Mexico City, September 2000.
[4] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, N. Secomandi, and V. Buraparate. Minimizing cash-out penalty costs: A bilevel programming model. In Proceedings of the 2001 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees Research Conference. Tampa, January 2001.
Technical Reports
[5] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, S. Wu, L. R. Scott, and E. A. Boyd. Preprocessing on natural gas transmission networks. Technical Report PISIS-2000-01, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, México, November 2000.