A Data-Driven State Estimation Framework for Natural Gas Networks With Measurement Noise

The large-scale coverage of natural gas makes the composition structure and operation mode of natural gas network more complex, higher requirements are put forward for the effectiveness and accuracy of state estimation. The existing methods for state estimation of natural gas network with noise are all modeled after processing the data with noise, leading to the real data being distorted to a certain extent. With that in mind, a data-driven method is presented in this paper. While solving the problem of state estimation for natural gas network with measurement noise in the input data, filtering and denoising are unnecessary during state estimation, retaining the complete information of real data. It avoids destruction of real data induced by separating noise from measured data owing to different methods and intensities of noise processing. According to the gas flow characteristic equation of natural gas system, the original problem is converted into a weighted low-rank approximation problem, the search space is shrunk to an orthogonal complement space. The selection of initial values is not merely unrestricted but there will be no accumulation and transmission of iteration error. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through simulating 10-node natural gas network. Compared with the Newton’s method, the data-driven method has superior performance, the RMSE achieves 0.2268 and the MAPE achieves 1.63%.