Proactive scheduling strategy applied to decoking operations of an industrial naphtha cracking furnace system

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3024-3032

  Lim, Heejin ^a   Choi, Jaein ^b   Realff, Matthew ^c   Lee, Jay H ^c   Park, Sunwon ^d  

^a Samsung SDS   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COKE DEPOSITS; COKE GROWTHS; CRACKING FURNACES; DECOKING; ETHYLENE PRODUCERS; MEASUREMENT INFORMATIONS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; ON-LINE ESTIMATIONS; OPERATING VARIABLES; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; PLANT SAFETIES; POTENTIAL CONFLICTS; PROACTIVE SCHEDULING; REACTIVE SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; SIMULATED SYSTEMS; UPDATED MODELS;

COKE; DROPS; ETHYLENE; FURNACES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NAPHTHAS; PRESSURE DROP; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 64749085959     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800331z     Document Type: Article

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