[HTML][HTML] Real-time coordination of multiple shuttle-conveyor-belts for inventory control of multi-quality stockpiles

M Yaqot, BC Menezes, JD Kelly - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Cyber-physical system demonstration of an automated shuttle-conveyor-belt operation for inventory control of multiple stockpiles: A proof of concept

M Yaqot, RE Franzoi, A Islam, BC Menezes - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart manufacturing in the so-called Industry 4.0 age pushes the research and
development of laboratory-scale proof of concepts before its deployment in pilots and real …

An adaptive sampling surrogate model building framework for the optimization of reaction systems

RE Franzoi, JD Kelly, BC Menezes… - Computers & Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many industrial engineering problems involve complex formulations and are assisted by
simulation tools. Although these tools provide highly accurate solutions, they may not be …

A moving horizon rescheduling framework for continuous nonlinear processes with disturbances

RE Franzoi, BC Menezes, JD Kelly, JAW Gut - … Engineering Research and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Scheduling decision-making is often calculated and implemented using unreliable or
inaccurate data from process networks, therefore infeasibilities and inconsistencies in the …

Industrial Modeling and Programming Language (IMPL) for off-and on-line optimization and estimation applications

JD Kelly, BC Menezes - Optimization in Large Scale Problems: Industry 4.0 …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Large-scale optimization of nonconvex MINLP refinery scheduling

RE Franzoi, BC Menezes, JD Kelly, JAW Gut… - Computers & Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Modeling and optimization of large-scale refinery scheduling problems is challenging
because of their complexity and size. Herein, we propose a mathematical model to …

Optimization of gas–steam–electricity network of typical iron and steel enterprise

Z Qiu, Y Yuan, T Yan, H Na, J Sun, Y Wang… - Journal of Sustainable …, 2022 - Springer
Due to the fact that by-product gases constitute significant secondary energy sources in iron
and steel enterprises, their reasonable distribution is critical for energy conservation and …

Blend Scheduling Solutions in Petroleum Refineries towards Automated Decision-Making in Industrial-like Blend-Shops

M Ahmednooh, B Menezes - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
A major operation in petroleum refinery plants, blend scheduling management of stocks and
their mixtures, known as blend-shops, is aimed at feeding process units (such as distillation …

Preprocessing algorithm and tightening constraints for multiperiod blend scheduling: cost minimization

Y Chen, CT Maravelias - Journal of Global Optimization, 2020 - Springer
While a range of models have been proposed for the multiperiod blend scheduling problem
(MBSP), solving even medium-size MBSP instances remains challenging due to the …

Design for online process and blend scheduling optimization

RE Franzoi, BC Menezes, JD Kelly, JAW Gut - Computer Aided Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
In manufacturing with transformation of natural resources into products, different quality raw
materials varying in composition are segregated, stocked and blended in order to prepare …