Definition of management criteria and design of complex electrical, thermal and cooling energy and fuel distribution networks

The energy networks are playing an important role for the achievement of the targets imposed by the national and international policies in the field of environmental protection. To this respect, the traditional energy production systems have been increasingly integrated with the distributed generation systems and in particular with the ones based on the renewable energy sources exploitation. This led to a significant change in the traditional energy networks which become even more complex representing a new challenge within the energy sector. In particular, an important aspect is represented by the definition of the optimal design as well as the management optimization of such complex energy networks. In this context, the PhD activities have been focused on the complex energy network analysis and on the investigation of the different algorithms to face these optimization problems. Furthermore, different case studies of energy networks have been analyzed and implemented within different algorithm-based software.