Planning multisite refinery network

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 Chapter 3 of this book we discussed the problem of multisite refinery integration under deterministic conditions. In this chapter, we extend the analysis to account for different parameter uncertainty. Robustness is quantified based on both model robustness and solution robustness, where each measure is assigned a scaling factor to analyze the sensitivity of the refinery plan and integration network due to variations. We make use of the sample average approximation (SAA) method with statistical bounding techniques to generate different scenarios. 

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