Maintenance scheduling in the electricity industry: A literature review

A Froger, M Gendreau, JE Mendoza, É Pinson… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The reliability of the power plants and transmission lines in the electricity industry is crucial
for meeting demand. Consequently, timely maintenance plays a major role reducing …

Dynamic energy scheduling and routing of a large fleet of electric vehicles using multi-agent reinforcement learning

M Alqahtani, MJ Scott, M Hu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
As the world's population and economy grow, demand for energy increases as well. Smart
grids can be a cost-effective solution to overcome increases in energy demand and ensure …

A two-stage stochastic programming approach for non-cooperative generation maintenance scheduling model design

A Hassanpour, E Roghanian - International Journal of Electrical Power & …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a two-stage stochastic programming formulation for yearly generation
maintenance scheduling when the power generators are unreliable, which means they may …

A new approach for maintenance scheduling of generating units in electrical power systems based on their operational hours

M Fattahi, M Mahootchi, H Mosadegh… - Computers & Operations …, 2014 - Elsevier
Generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) determines the outage periods of generating
units in a one-year or two-year planning horizon for regular safety inspection. This paper …

Matheuristics to optimize refueling and maintenance planning of nuclear power plants

N Dupin, EG Talbi - Journal of Heuristics, 2021 - Springer
Planning the maintenance of nuclear power plants is a complex optimization problem,
involving a joint optimization of maintenance dates, fuel constraints and power production …

Parallel matheuristics for the discrete unit commitment problem with min‐stop ram** constraints

N Dupin, E Talbi - International Transactions in Operational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The discrete unit commitment problem with min‐stop ram** constraints optimizes the daily
production of thermal power plants, subject to an operational reactivity of thermal units in a …

Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling

HK Alfares - Journal of Scheduling, 2022 - Springer
An important and challenging real-life problem is considered, involving workforce
assignment and job scheduling for shutdown maintenance in a large oil refinery. A limited …

A multistage stochastic programming approach for preventive maintenance scheduling of GENCOs with natural gas contract

Z Huang, QP Zheng - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
A preventive maintenance scheduling problem is studied on behalf of generation companies
(GENCOs) with natural gas power plants, while taking into account their signed natural gas …

Cloud theory-based simulated annealing for a single-machine past sequence setup scheduling with scenario-dependent processing times

CC Wu, WC Lin, XG Zhang, DY Bai, YW Tsai… - Complex & Intelligent …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, the setup times or costs have become an important research topic. The main
reason is huge economic savings can be achieved when setup times are explicitly included …

Optimizing the maintenance schedule of a combined cycle gas turbine considering different maintenance types and operating hours

FY Vincent, YS Lin, P Jodiawan, MD He, SW Lin - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An efficient maintenance schedule for gas turbines of power plants ensures a reliable
electricity supply. This study addresses a generator maintenance scheduling problem …