Hybrid petri net modeling and schedulability analysis of high fusion point oil transportation under tank grouping strategy for crude oil operations in refinery

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

There are varieties of constraints for a short-term scheduling problem of crude oil operations in a refinery. These constraints are difficult to model and complicate the short-term scheduling problem. Among them, oil residency time and high fusion point crude oil transportation constraints are the challenging ones. With high setup cost for high fusion point oil transportation, it is desired that the volume of high fusion point oil can be transported as much as possible by a single setup. This may result in late transportation of other types of crude oil, leading to the violation of crude oil residency time constraint. These constraints are ignored by existing methods in the literature. To solve this problem, this paper studies the problem in a control theory perspective by viewing an operation decision in the schedule as a control. With this idea, the system is modeled by a hybrid Petri net. With this model and tank grouping strategy, schedulability analysis is carried out and schedulability conditions are presented with tank charging and discharging costs being taken into consideration. These conditions are necessary for determining a refining schedule and can be used to check whether a target-refining schedule is realizable or not. If so, a feasible detailed schedule for the refining schedule can be easily obtained by creating the operation decisions one by one. © 2009 IEEE.

Identifier

77249123833 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C Applications and Reviews

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2032661

ISSN

10946977

First Page

159

Last Page

175

Issue

2

Volume

40

Grant

60474061

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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