Monday, June 17, 2013

Refinery scheduling of crude oil unloading with tank inventory management

CATEGORY: SCHEDULING
Computers & Chemical Engineering, Available online 17 April 2013, In Press, Accepted Manuscript
Refinery scheduling of crude oil unloading with tank inventory management
Aminu A. Hamisu a, Stephen Kabantiok b, Meihong Wang c
a Process systems Engineering Group, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, MK43 0AL, UK
b Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited, P.M.B. 44, Effurun, Nigeria
c Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Abstract
Presents a methodology for short-term crude oil unloading, tank inventory management, and crude distillation unit (CDU) charging schedule using mixed integer linear programming (MILP) optimization model as an extension to a previous work reported by Lee et al. (1996).
Authors attempt to improve the previous model by adding an interval-interval variation constraint to avoid CDU charging rate fluctuation, a shutdown penalty within the scheduling cycle and a set up penalty for tank-tank transfer and introducing demand violation permit for a more flexible model against obtaining infeasible solution.
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