Recent developments in energy markets, such as the increasing share of inherently volatile
renewable power in the energy supply mix and the need of reducing carbon emissions while …

Variations in parameters such as processing times, yields, and availability of materials and
utilities can have a detrimental effect in the optimality and/or feasibility of an otherwise …

Increased volatility in electricity prices and new emerging demand side management
opportunities call for efficient tools for the optimal operation of power-intensive processes. In …

The pooling problem, an optimization challenge of maximizing profit subject product
availability, storage capacity, demand, and product specification constraints, has …

A systematic framework for the integration of short‐term scheduling and dynamic
optimization (DO) of batch processes is described. The state equipment network (SEN) is …

Scheduling of crude oil operations is a critical and complicated component of overall refinery
operations, because crude oil costs account for about 80% of the refinery turnover …

Unit-specific event-based continuous time models have gained significant attention in the
past decade for their advantages of requiring less number of event points, smaller problem …

The problem of short-term scheduling of batch plants has received remarkable attention in
the past two decades. The state-task-network (STN) and resource-task-network (RTN) …

The scheduling of steelmaking continuous-casting (SCC) processes is of major importance
in iron and steel operations, since it is often a bottleneck in iron and steel production …

In this work, we describe a framework for short-term and medium-term scheduling of a large-
scale industrial continuous plant. For medium-term scheduling, two sub-problems are solved …