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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 208, Issue 8, Pages 1167-1188Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2020.1765160
Keywords
Cyclic scheduling; Unit specific event based model; Unified framework; Active task; Heat integration
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The article presents a novel mathematical modeling for cyclic scheduling of multipurpose batch plants, which simplifies the complexity of the problem through a unified framework, making it more efficient in handling scheduling problems with long time horizons.
Process scheduling with a long time horizon always leads to large problem size, which is challenging to solve for global optimal solutions. The problem complexity further increases with the inclusion of additional tasks such as heat integration, water integration, material transfers and shared storage. Cyclic scheduling can be a potential option to handle the long time horizon scheduling problems. In this work, a novel unified three index unit-specific event-based mathematical formulation is presented for cyclic scheduling of multipurpose batch plants. The unified framework reduces to a simple case in the absence of cyclic scheduling. The task extending to the next cycle is integrated with the short term scheduling constraints using the active task concept. Further, the framework is also extended for simultaneous cyclic scheduling and heat integration of multipurpose batch plants. The computational performance of the unified framework is evaluated with benchmark examples taken from the literature.
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