Production scheduling of a large-scale steelmaking continuous casting process via unit-specific event-based continuous-time models: Short-term and medium-term scheduling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7300-7319

  Li, Jie ^a,b   Xiao, Xin ^b   Tang, Qiuhua ^c   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONTINUOUS CASTING PROCESS; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS; EVENT-BASED; FLOW-TIME; INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM; INTEGER SOLUTIONS; IRON AND STEEL; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; PRODUCTION COST; PRODUCTION SCHEDULING; ROLLING HORIZON; SCHEDULING MODELS;

CONTINUOUS CASTING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; PROFITABILITY; STEELMAKING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84866929231     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie2015944     Document Type: Article

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