Abstract
In some refineries, storage tanks are located at two different sites, one for low-fusion-point crude oil and the other for high one. Two pipelines are used to transport different oil types. Due to the constraints resulting from the high-fusion-point oil transportation, it is challenging to schedule such a system. This work studies the scheduling problem from a control-theoretic perspective. It proposes to use a hybrid Petri net method to model the system. It then finds the schedulability conditions by analysing the dynamic behaviour of the net model. Next, it proposes an efficient scheduling method to minimize the cost of high-fusion-point oil transportation. Finally, it gives a complex industrial case study to show its application.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 581-610 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | Enterprise Information Systems |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 23 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems and Management
Keywords
- crude oil operations
- hybrid Petri nets
- oil refinery
- scheduling