Petrochemical network integration

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This book aims at providing the reader with a detailed understanding of the planning, integration and coordination of multisite refinery and petrochemical networks using proper deterministic and stochastic techniques. The book consists of three parts ... 

In this section we demonstrate the performance of the proposed model on an industrial-scale case study. Instead of considering the full scale petrochemical network which may have limited application, we consider a special case of the integration problem. Although the proposed formulation covers the full scale refinery network and petrochemical systems, the case study will consider the integration of a petrochemical complex for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with a multi-refinery network. PVC is one of the major ethylene derivatives that has many important applications and uses, including pipe fittings, automobile bumpers, toys, bottles and many others (Rudd et al., 1981). 

A mixed-integer programming model for designing an integration and coordination policy among multiple refineries and a petrochemical network was presented. 

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