A new Dutch/German consortium 'Energy Network Optimisation in Europe' is working on mathematical modeling of Europe's 'increasingly complex' gas networks. According to the proposers, 'liberalization of the gas network is a complicating factor which can potentially lead to the emergence of inconsistencies.' These, it appears, can be 'resolved' through 'mathematical insights.' Traditional paths from producer to consumer are evolving into a gas 'superhighway' with a multiplicity of branches. Manager of the ?12 million project, TU-Delft's Kees Vuiksaid, 'The mathematical models that we are developing can be used by gas suppliers to tune their gas lines much more precisely in terms of the amount and value of the gas flowing through them'.
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