Energy consumption prediction plays an important role in pipeline operation regulation and energy management. Accurate energy consumption prediction is helpful to make important decisions, including unit commitment, batch scheduling, load dispatching, energy consumption target setting, etc. The energy consumption of crude oil pipeline is mainly the electrical energy of pump unit. The average annual electrical energy consumption of China's crude oil pipelines accounts for more than half of the annual operating cost of pipelines. Therefore, the prediction of electrical power consumption of crude oil pipelines is very important.

The energy consumption prediction of crude oil pipelines is very complicated. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, it depends on the variables related to operation parameters, crude oil physical property parameters, environmental parameters and equipment parameters. Secondly, its nonlinearity is very strong. Thirdly, the available samples are too little. Due to backward acquisition technology, most parameters are invariable or unavailable. Through the study on the monthly operation data collected by the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and detailed energy consumption analysis, turnover is selected as the input variable and electrical energy consumption is selected as the output variable. The support vector machines (SVM) is introduced to predict the monthly electric energy consumption of crude oil pipelines for driving oil pumps. However, the generalization capability of SVM is highly dependent on appropriate parameter setting, such as penalty coefficient and kernel parameter. The selection of the optimal parameters is critical to achieving good performance in the learning process. Therefore, in order to improve the generalization ability, GridSearchCV is used to optimize the hyperparameters of SVM.

Taking a crude oil pipeline from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province to Fangshan District, Beijing as an example, the actual operation data for four consecutive years (48 months) are used for the study. The data were divided into training set and test data by stratified sampling method, which consist of 28 samples and 20 samples respectively. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and coefficient of determination (R^2^) on the test data are 3.42, 21.64, 14.31 and 0.94 respectively. Compared with other five state-of-the-art prediction methods in predictive accuracy, the result shows that GSCV-SVM has the best performance in the case of small samples, and the prediction results are in good agreement with the actual data.

Keywords: Crude oil pipeline; Electrical energy consumption prediction; Support vector machine; GridSearchCV; Stratified sampling.


Mid-Term Energy Consumption Prediction of Crude Oil Pipeline Pump Unit Based on Gscv-Svm

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Pressure Vessels & Piping (PVP)


Paper Proceedings: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/PVP/PVP2020/volume/83815

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