Refineries, scheduling

Karimi, I. A. Refinery Scheduling. CACHE Process Design Case Studies, I. Grossmann and M. Morari, eds., CACHE Corporation, Austin, TX (1992). 

MacDonald, W. B., A. N. Hrymak, and S. Treiber. Interior Point Algorithms for Refinery Scheduling Problems in Proc. 4th Annual Symp. Process Systems Engineering (Aug. 5-9, 1991) III.13.1-16. 

Nelson Refinery Construction Index, Oil Gas Jcmrnal. Published on specific schedules during year. 

Baker (1993) outlined the planning and scheduling activities in a refinery as follows ... 

In plant operations planning each refinery model produces target operating conditions, stream allocations, and blends across the whole refinery, which determines (a) optimal operating conditions, flows, blend recipes, and inventories and (b) costs, cost limits, and marginal values to the scheduling and real-time optimization (RTO) models. 

The scheduling models for each refinery convert the preceding information into detailed unit-level directives that provide day-by-day operating conditions or set points. 

Jia, Z. and Ierapetritou, M. (2003) Refinery short-term scheduling using continuous time formulation crude-oil operations. 

Lee, H., Pinto, J.M., Grossmann, I.E., and Park, S. (1996) Mixed-integer linear programming model for refinery short-term scheduling of crude oil unloading with inventory management Industrial el Engineering Chemistry Research, 35, 1630. 

Pinto, J.M., Joly, M and Moro, L.F.L. (2000) Planning and scheduling models for refinery operations. Computers el Chemical Engineering, 24, 2259. 

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