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Efficient short-term scheduling of refinery operations based on a continuous time formulation

Authors :
Zhenya Jia
Marianthi G. Ierapetritou
Source :
Computers & Chemical Engineering. 28:1001-1019
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2004.

Abstract

The problem addressed in this work is to develop a comprehensive mathematical programming model for the efficient scheduling of oil-refinery operations. Our approach is first to decompose the overall problem spatially into three domains: the crude-oil unloading and blending, the production unit operations and the product blending and delivery. In particular, the first problem involves the crude-oil unloading from vessels, its transfer to storage tanks and the charging schedule for each crude-oil mixture to the distillation units. The second problem consists of the production unit scheduling which includes both fractionation and reaction processes and the third problem describes the finished product blending and shipping end of the refinery. Each of those sub-problems is modeled and solved in a most efficient way using continuous time representation to take advantage of the relatively smaller number of variables and constraints compared to discrete time formulation. The proposed methodology is applied to realistic case studies and significant computational savings can be achieved compared with existing approaches.

Details

ISSN :
00981354
Volume :
28
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Computers & Chemical Engineering
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........c818700efe6ca342bf3ab102fd458604
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2003.09.007