| Titre : | Optimal scheduling of refined products pipelines with multiple sources (2009) |
| Auteurs : | Diego C. Cafaro, Auteur ; Jaime Cerdá, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Industrial & engineering chemistry research (Vol. 48 N° 14, Juillet 2009) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 6675–6689 |
| Note générale : | Chemical engineering |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Tags : | Pipelines Optimal scheduling |
| Résumé : | Most contributions on short-term planning of multiproduct pipeline operations deal with pipelines featuring a single input terminal. In common-carrier pipelines, however, several refineries located at different sites use the same trunk line for shipping refined petroleum products to downstream output terminals. They can be regarded as multiple-source pipelines with input facilities at nonorigin points. The operation of intermediate sources raises some new difficult issues. Pumping runs taking place at intermediate locations can either insert a new lot or increase the size of a batch in transit. Batches are no longer arranged in the line in the same order that they are injected, and tracking the batch sequence becomes a more complex task. This paper introduces a novel continuous formulation for the scheduling of multiple-source pipelines operating on fungible or segregated mode. A case study involving a single pipeline that transports three distillates from two input to three output terminals was successfully solved over a 10-day time horizon. |
| En ligne : | http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie900015b |
