Science and Technology Production
Article
Authorship
V. Cafaro
;
D. Cafaro
;
C.A. Méndez
;
J. Cerdá
Date
2011
Publishing House and Editing Place
PENNWELL PUBL CO ENERGY GROUP
Magazine
OIL & GAS JOURNAL,
vol. 109
(pp. 98-104)
PENNWELL PUBL CO ENERGY GROUP
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Refined products pipelines transport different oil derivatives end-to-end in successive batches. Multiproduct pipelines operate in either segregated or fungible mode. A discrete-event simulation technique, combined with optimization tools, allows easy management of real-world pipelines operations with low computational effort. Modeling to develop the technique used a nontraditional multi-server queuing system with a number of synchronized servers at every pipe-end and priority rules to decide w...
Refined products pipelines transport different oil derivatives end-to-end in successive batches. Multiproduct pipelines operate in either segregated or fungible mode. A discrete-event simulation technique, combined with optimization tools, allows easy management of real-world pipelines operations with low computational effort. Modeling to develop the technique used a nontraditional multi-server queuing system with a number of synchronized servers at every pipe-end and priority rules to decide which server should dispatch the entity waiting for service to the associated depot. A novel discrete event simulation system developed on "Arena" for the detailed scheduling of a multiproduct pipeline consisting of a sequence of pipes connecting a single input station to several receiving terminals is presented
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Key Words
discrete event simulationMultiproduct pipelinespipelines operations