Cyclic scheduling for best profitability of industrial cracking furnace system

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 544-554

  Liu, Chaowei ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Li, Kuyen ^a  

^a Lamar University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic scheduling; Ethylene cracking furnace; MINLP; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COKE FORMATION; CRACKING FURNACE; CYCLIC SCHEDULING; DECOKING; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ETHYLENE CRACKING FURNACE; ETHYLENE PLANTS; FURNACE SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBON FEEDSTOCK; HYDROCARBON MOLECULES; MANUFACTURING COST; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE CRACKING; NEW MODEL; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PRODUCT PRICE; SHUT DOWN;

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBONS; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; PROFITABILITY; PROPYLENE; SCHEDULING;

FURNACES;

EID: 77649187992     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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