Determination of Storage Tanks Location for Optimal Short-Term Scheduling in Multipurpose/Mutiproduct Batch Plants Under Uncertainty

G. DURAND; F. MELE; A. BANDONI

Buenos Aires

Congreso; ALIO-INFORMS International Meeting; 2010

ABSTRACT “Determination of Storage Tanks Location for Optimal Short-Term Scheduling in Multipurpose/Mutiproduct Batch Plants Under Uncertainty".  G. Durand, F. D. Mele, A. Bandoni; ALIO-INFORMS International Meeting; paper No. 2, SD07, p.43. Buenos Aires, June 6-9, 2010.   http://meetings2.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/     Session SD07 - Aula 353- Third Floor Planning and Scheduling of Industrial Processes II Cluster: Special Invited Sessions Invited Session Chair: Gabriela Henning, Professor, Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET, Güemes 3450, Santa Fe, SF, S3000GLN, Argentina, ghenning@intec.unl.edu.ar Co-Chair: Aldo Vecchietti, Professor, INGAR, Avellaneda 3657, Santa Fe, 3000, Argentina, aldovec@santafe-conicet.gov.ar     2 – “Determination of Storage Tanks Location for Optimal Short-term Scheduling in Multipurpose/Multiproduct Batch Plants under Uncertainties” Alberto Bandoni, PLAPIQUI, UNS-CONICET, Argentina, abandoni@plapiqui.edu.ar, Fernando D. Mele, Guillermo A. Durand   A multipurpose/multiproduct plant has to deal with many combinations of tasks’ ordering and units’ working rate that leads to accumulation problems. These problems are handled using storage tanks, but their location within the flowsheet is predetermined and not subject to optimization. In this work we will determinate the location of storage tanks for the optimal short-term scheduling. The plant is under parametric uncertainty, and to solve the problem we will use the SIM/OPT framework.