An Approach to the Tasks Setting for Synthesizing a Gas Balance Automated Control System

The gas balance control automated systems in the gas transmission networks is an organizational and technical systems that manage in accordance with the accepted criteria. Tasks of the automated systems of gas balance are the following: gas parameters control during its transportation, costs minimization for maintaining the gas balance, gas leaks and losses prevention. To improve management efficiency, it is advisable to develop new and improve existing management algorithms, use new approaches to setting goals. The article discusses an approach based on the development of a gas transmission network computer model and the implementing in it a system of virtual sensors it, that measure the following gas volumes to eliminate the imbalance, depending on the factors-causes: stock in the main gas pipeline, consumption for own needs and the costs of correcting the imbalance. In the approach, imbalance-eliminating decisions based on the criterion of minimizing the volumes passing through these virtual sensors are considered.