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Burak Kocuk of Sabanci University will present a seminar for the Management Science Department

Abstract : In this talk, we present a new formulation for the multi-period optimal power flow (MOPF) problem with electric vehicles (EV) under emission considerations. We integrate three different real data sets, household electricity consumption, marginal emission factors, and EV driving profiles, into the proposed formulation. We present a systematic solution approach based on second-order cone programming (SOCP) to find globally optimal solutions of the MOPF problem. Our computational experiments on test cases with up to 2000 buses demonstrate that the proposed approach leads to approximately globally optimal solutions with significant emission savings and reductions in cost through coordinated charging of EVs.

Bio: Burak Kocuk is an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering Program, Sabanci University. He obtained his BS degrees in Industrial Engineering and Mathematics, and MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University. He obtained his PhD degree of Operations Research at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Sabanci University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His current research focuses on mixed-integer nonlinear programming and stochastic optimization problems, from both theoretical and methodological aspects.