Scheduling tanker-lightering operations in crude oil transportation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8063-8082

  Huang, Cheng ^a   Karimi, I A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SERVICE VESSELS;

BEST SLOT-BASED MODEL; EVENT-BASED MODELS; TIME-CHARTER COSTS;

OIL TANKERS;

COSTS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OIL TANKERS; OPTIMIZATION; SERVICE VESSELS;

EID: 33845337338     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060379j     Document Type: Article

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