Dear All, I am working on an optimization problem, where we are trying to minimize some indicators like energy usage, energy cost, CO2 emission. In this problem, we have a bunch of energy conversion technologies for electricity and thermal purpose, such as heat pump, boiler, chiller, etc.. We are trying to model it with a one year time period. the current time step is one hour.
We have preselected the candidate technologies to exclude those we don't want to study so that the problem size could be reduced with a limited candidate technologies. In the current case study, we only analyze the electric chiller and heat pump to supply the cooling load, while power grid will supply the electricity for all electric loads. There are binary variables regarding installation decisions of technologies and continuous variables related to installation capacity and hourly operational decisions. For small cases, Python works well. But if we consider longer time period. then it would fail due to the memory usage issues. We have tested several case studies to check the memory use for different time period, including 1) 2 hours in one day, 2) 24 hours in one day, 3) 20 days with 24 hours each day, as well as 4) 30 days with 24 hours each day. The first 3 cases are feasible while the last case gives out the memory error. When we are testing the forth case, the memory error comes out while creating the inequality constraints. The problem size is 1) Aeq: 12 * 26, Aineq: 30 * 26; 2) Aeq: 144*268, Aineq:316*268; 3) Aeq: 2880*5284, Aineq: 6244*5284; 4) Aeq: 4320 * 7924, Aineq is unknown due to the memory error. The solver is CPLEX (academic). It turns out that the solver is taking a lot of memory as you can see in the memory test report. for the first three cases, different memory usage is observed, and it grows up dramatically with the increase of the time period. 1) solver memory usage: 25.6 MB, 2) 19.5 MB; 3) solver memory usage: 830.0742 MB. Based on my observations, I have some of the following questions regarding 1) In order to create the optimization problem (Aeq, Aineq), how can we reduce the memory usage in python programming? 2) how can I reduce the memory usage of different solvers in Python? Why would the memory decrease for the CPLEX solver within the 24-hours-in-one-day case compared with the case 1? Thanks in advance, Ping
solver memory comparison.xlsx
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