Refinery scheduling of crude oil unloading, storage and processing using a model predictive control strategy

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1671-1686

  Yüzgeç, Uĝur ^a   Palazoglu, Ahmet ^a   Romagnoli, Jose A ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Model predictive control; Moving horizon; Refinery; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DECISIONS; CRUDE DISTILLATION UNITS; DISTURBANCE PREDICTION; MOVING HORIZON; OIL DEMAND; OIL REFINERIES; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL OPERATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGY; PROCESS DISTURBANCES; REFINERY; REFINERY SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; TIME INTERVAL;

CRUDE OIL; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFINING; SCHEDULING; UNLOADING;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956188848     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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