Development and challenges of planning and scheduling for petroleum and petrochemical production

doi:10.1007/s42524-020-0123-3

Front. Eng

2020, Vol. 7

Issue (3) : 373-383 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-020-0123-3

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Development and challenges of planning and scheduling for petroleum and petrochemical production

Fupei LI¹, Minglei YANG², Wenli DU²(

), Xin DAI¹

¹. School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
². Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

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Abstract

Production planning and scheduling are becoming the core of production management, which support the decision of a petrochemical company. The optimization of production planning and scheduling is attempted by every refinery because it gains additional profit and stabilizes the daily production. The optimization problem considered in industry and academic research is of different levels of realism and complexity, thus increasing the gap. Operation research with mathematical programming is a conventional approach used to address the planning and scheduling problem. Additionally, modeling the processes, objectives, and constraints and developing the optimization algorithms are significant for industry and research. This paper introduces the perspective of production planning and scheduling from the development viewpoint.

Keywords planning and scheduling optimization modeling

Corresponding Author(s): Wenli DU

Just Accepted Date: 28 June 2020 Online First Date: 20 July 2020 Issue Date: 06 August 2020

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Fupei LI,Minglei YANG,Wenli DU, et al. Development and challenges of planning and scheduling for petroleum and petrochemical production[J]. Front. Eng, 2020, 7(3): 373-383.

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Fig.1 Scope of planning and scheduling in a refinery supply chain.

Fig.2 Architecture of the virtual manufacturing system.

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