Recipe determination and scheduling of gasoline blending operations

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 441-465

  Li, Jie ^a   Karimi, I A ^a   Srinivasan, Rajagopalan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blending; Gasoline; Mixed integer nonlinear programming; Nonconvex; Property index; Recipe

Indexed keywords

BLEND COMPONENTS; COMMERCIAL SOLVERS; FEED-RATES; GASOLINE BLENDING; INVENTORY COSTS; MILP FORMULATION; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAM; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONCONVEX; NONCONVEX MINLP; OPTIMIZED SCHEDULE; PIECEWISE CONSTANT; RUN LENGTH; SCHEDULING DECISIONS; SOLUTION APPROACH;

BLENDING; COST REDUCTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GASOLINE; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SCHEDULING; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 74349131396     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11970     Document Type: Article

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