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A novel continuous-time MILP approach for short-term scheduling of multipurpose pipeless batch

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Authorship
S. Ferrer-Nadal ; C.A. Méndez ; M. Graells ; L. Puigjaner
Date
2007
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Book
Computer Aided Process Engineering, 24 (pp. 595-600)
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ISBN
0-444-52970-5
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This work presents an alternative MILP mathematical formulation for the short-term scheduling of pipeless batch plants based on a continuous-time representation that relies on the general precedence notion. Besides of the intrinsic characteristics of a pipeless plant, this model considers the moveable vessels as an additional resource that has to be allocated and sequenced. This fact allows proposing a strategy consisting of a sequential treatment of the resources to reduce the complexity of th... This work presents an alternative MILP mathematical formulation for the short-term scheduling of pipeless batch plants based on a continuous-time representation that relies on the general precedence notion. Besides of the intrinsic characteristics of a pipeless plant, this model considers the moveable vessels as an additional resource that has to be allocated and sequenced. This fact allows proposing a strategy consisting of a sequential treatment of the resources to reduce the complexity of the problem.
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Key Words
Pipeless plantsScheduling