Production planning and scheduling are becoming the core of production management,
which support the decision of a petrochemical company. The optimization of production …

Oil and gas companies play an important role in the global economy since they supply a
large portion of the necessary energy to the world. The optimal production of oil and gas …

A hybrid model predictive control formulation with continuous and discrete variables that
models multiple crushed-ore stockpiles per conveyor-belt is proposed for better conveying …

The integrated refinery-petrochemical plant produces multiple oil products and
petrochemical materials, which process consumes large amounts of energy and generates …

In the context of the global energy transition, the refining industry is facing a major challenge
between economic profitability and environmental protection. Planning refineries using …

Tank pool fire domino effects, represented by their capacities of accident consequence
escalation and extensive damages, present substantial safety challenges within chemical …

In the face of lower margins, stiffer competition, and ever more stringent product and
environmental specifications, petroleum refineries have increasingly relied on optimization …

In this paper, a novel integrated optimization approach which couples the up-stream refinery
and the down-stream ethylene plant is proposed. When the material balances of the …

IMPL is both a structure-and semantic-based machine-coded proprietary software language
(closed-source) built upon the computer programming language Fortran to model and solve …

This paper presents a novel mixed-integer linear programming model for the combined
capacity and production planning problem, which accounts for several important features …