DocumentCode :
3251182
Title :
Spatial-based decomposition approach for the crude scheduling problem of a refinery with multiple ports and long-distance pipelines
Author :
Chen, Xuan ; Zhang, Zhi-Hai ; Huang, Si-Min ; Zheng, Li
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fYear :
2010
fDate :
29-31 Oct. 2010
Firstpage :
808
Lastpage :
812
Abstract :
This work addresses the large-scale crude scheduling problem of a real case refinery importing various types of crude oil from two ports via long-distance pipelines. We employ a spatial-based decomposition approach to construct a two-stage model of the practical refinery operations. During the first stage, the refinery plant is treated as a single aggregated demand node to simplify the port sub-problem. Specific receiving and charging operations of the plant sub-problem are then determined in the second stage. While the overall model of the refinery is difficult to solve, the decomposition approach could obtain satisfactory and flexible scheduling results with much less computational efforts.
Keywords :
crude oil; oil refining; pipelines; scheduling; large-scale crude scheduling problem; long-distance pipelines; multiple ports; refinery operations; refinery plant; spatial based decomposition approach; two-stage model; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Crude scheduling; long-distance pipelines; multiple ports; spatial-based decomposition;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2010 IEEE 17Th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6483-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEEM.2010.5646497
Filename :
5646497
Link To Document :
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