Theme: NetworX Analytics

An illustration of some critical infrastructure networks and their interconnectivity

We are surrounded and are part of various networks including genetics, genealogy, social, economic and environmental networks. Add to these the so-called critical infrastructure networks (e.g., telecommunications, water, gas, electricity, and transportation including roadway, railway, airway, seaway, and subway). The key challenge in dealing with complex networks is to understand how they adapt, evolve, and behave. We can study them by describing and modelling them, using network theories and borrowing knowledge from various disciplines and applications.

Application Scope

• Network planning (greenfield or expansion)

• Network scheduling

• Network robustness analysis (against error or attack)

• Network reliability with demand-side management (DSM)

• Networks decentralisation

• Networks interconnectivity

Some of our Lab Projects

• NetworX interconnection (UTS, National Technical University of Athens)

• Robustness analysis of energy networks against cascading failure (UTS, Monash

• University, National Technical University of Athens, University of Stuttgart)

• International renewable energy network (UTS, National University of Singapore)

• Frameworks for interconnected gas and electricity networks (UTS, Carnegie Mellon University)

• Water-Energy nexus: Interconnection of water and energy networks (UTS)

Ideas for student projects

• Network Resilience: Robustness analysis of energy networks against cascadingfailure

• Energy-justice nexus: Optimal electricity tariff design in the decentralised network context

• Peer-to-peer community energy network design and optimisation

• Energy-water nexus: Optimal design and grid integration of renewable desalination systems

• Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of CO2 utilisation and green chemicals within the regional Australian and global economic network (Input-Output + CGE modelling)

• Management of organisational (workplace) bullying using network theories of power

• Green supply chain framework development based on renewable hydrogen vector

• Energy network planning and scheduling considering renewable energies, energy storage, and uncertainty (including the scenario of 100% renewables)

Some related publications

• Khalilpour, KR, 2018, The Nexus Era: Toward an Integrated, Interconnected, Decentralized, and Prosumer Future

• Rojas-Sanchez, D., Hoadley, A., Khalilpour, KR. 2019. A multi-objective extended input–output model for a regional economy. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 20, 15–28.

• Khalilpour, KR 2018, Moving Forward to the Past, With Adaptation and Flexibility

• Khalilpour, KR 2018, Interconnected Electricity and Natural Gas Supply Chains: The Roles of Power to Gas and Gas to Power, DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-813306-4.00005-7

• Khalilpour, KR 2018, Design and Operational Management of Energy Hubs: A DS4S(Screening, Selection, Sizing, and Scheduling) Framework, DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-813306-4.00015-x

• Khalilpour, KR & Vassallo, A 2016, Noncooperative Community Energy Networks, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-652-2_8

• Khalilpour, KR & Vassallo, A 2016, Cooperative Community Energy Networks, DOI:10.1007/978-981-287-652-2_9

• Karimi F., Khalilpour, KR., 2015, Three Decades of Carbon Capture and Storage Research: Evolution of the International Collaborations Trends and Research Topics Patterns, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 37, 362–376.

• Khalilpour, KR., 2014. Multi-level investment planning and scheduling under electricity and carbon market dynamics: Retrofit of a power plant with PCC processes, Energy, 64, 172-186.

• Khalilpour, KR., Karimi, I.A. 2011. Selection of LNG contracts for minimizing procurement cost. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 50, 10298–10312.