Short-term scheduling of crude oil operations in refinery with high-fusion-point oil and two transportation pipelines

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-23-2016

Abstract

In some refineries, storage tanks are located at two different sites, one for low-fusion-point crude oil and the other for high one. Two pipelines are used to transport different oil types. Due to the constraints resulting from the high-fusion-point oil transportation, it is challenging to schedule such a system. This work studies the scheduling problem from a control-theoretic perspective. It proposes to use a hybrid Petri net method to model the system. It then finds the schedulability conditions by analysing the dynamic behaviour of the net model. Next, it proposes an efficient scheduling method to minimize the cost of high-fusion-point oil transportation. Finally, it gives a complex industrial case study to show its application.

Identifier

84964904131 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Enterprise Information Systems

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2014.948936

e-ISSN

17517583

ISSN

17517575

First Page

581

Last Page

610

Issue

6

Volume

10

Grant

065/2013/A2

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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