Scheduling of a mixed batch/continuous sugar milling plant using Petri nets

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 580-589

  Ghaeli, Mahsa ^b   Bahri, Parisa A ^a   Lee, Peter L ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mixed batch continuous; Petri net; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

HYBRID SYSTEMS; MILLING (MACHINING); PETRI NETS; SCHEDULING;

CONTINUOUS PROCESSING; HYBRID PETRI NET; MIXED BATCH/CONTINUOUS; PROBLEM FORMULATION; SUGAR MILLINGS;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 73249125934     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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