Download or read book Chemical Production Scheduling written by Christos T. Maravelias and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand common scheduling as well as other advanced operational problems with this valuable reference from a recognized leader in the field. Beginning with basic principles and an overview of linear and mixed-integer programming, this unified treatment introduces the fundamental ideas underpinning most modeling approaches, and will allow you to easily develop your own models. With more than 150 figures, the basic concepts and ideas behind the development of different approaches are clearly illustrated. Addresses a wide range of problems arising in diverse industrial sectors, from oil and gas to fine chemicals, and from commodity chemicals to food manufacturing. A perfect resource for engineering and computer science students, researchers working in the area, and industrial practitioners.
Download or read book Mixed integer Programming Models and Solution Methods for Chemical Production Scheduling written by Ho Jae Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization-based chemical production scheduling allows for efficient utilization of available assets and brings significant operational benefits including reduction in costs. Unfortunately, application of such techniques to industrial settings is challenging due to multiple reasons: (i) the optimization models need to be general to accommodate different production processes, (ii) the solution of such models need to be quick to allow for frequent updates to the schedules, and (iii) the models should be capable of providing multiple alternative schedules for the practitioners to compare and implement. The goal of this work is to address the aforementioned challenges and bring optimization-based scheduling techniques closer to industrial applications. First, we develop mathematical programming models for simultaneous batching and scheduling in general sequential production environment while taking into account various process features including storage policies and limited shared utilities. The models are based on novel modeling approaches which allow for exploitation of instance characteristics, thus leading to solution of large-scale instances. Second, we develop a novel framework for a solution algorithm that harnesses the advantages of discrete- and continuous-time scheduling models. Specifically, we propose an algorithm that has modeling flexibility and computational efficiency of discrete-time models, as well as high solution accuracy of their continuous counterparts. We investigate in detail how the algorithm can be improved and extended to solve real-world industrial instances that are thought to be computationally near impossible if transitional methods were to be used. Finally, we develop systematic methods to generate multiple alternative schedules, specifically to account for modeling simplifications introduced in the scheduling models and plant nervousness when revising schedules. We generate alternative schedules by quantifying specific characteristics of a schedule using explicitly defined metrics, which are favored at different degrees by penalizing them in the objective function with varying penalty weights. We show that, by leveraging penalty weights, schedules with desirable properties can be readily found.
Download or read book Solution Methods for Chemical Production Scheduling written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization-based strategies to solve problems in production scheduling have been extensively used in the last decades due to their generality, flexibility and potential to find the best solutions in terms of costs, customer satisfaction, and efficiency. Traditionally, most efforts have been directed towards the development of mathematical models that are computationally tractable. However, the effective solution of large-scale scheduling models remains nontrivial. The main objective of this thesis is the development of solution methods for the different types of chemical plants. Our discussion is largely motivated by a new approach to the analysis of timing and inventory restrictions in scheduling problems. First, we propose a family of algorithms that are suitable for maximization problems in network environments. By preprocessing the original data we calculate parameters that are used to develop tightening constraints. We also introduce the concept of variable start and finish times and derive expressions to relate them and connect them with original decision variables. By means of computational experiments we show the effectiveness of these methods in improving the solution process of optimization-based models for scheduling. Second, we develop a new family of discrete-time models for sequential environments. Almost all the existing models in the literature use a continuous representation of time. We discuss the advantages of discrete-time models and propose different solution methods to improve their computational performance. A computational study is included to test the improvements and compare with existing approaches. Significant reduction in computational time and optimality gap is achieved. Third, we extend methods based on reformulations and tightening constraints from discrete-time to continuous time models in network environments. We use specific characteristics of the latter to improve computational performance, testing our methods on several benchmark instances. Finally we test the proposed methods on large-scale instances for which optimal solutions had not been found before or whose computational performances demanded long solution times. This way we show that our formulations and methods improve the tractability of industrial-scale instances. Optimal or near-optimal solutions are now accessible in reasonable time for many cases for which only suboptimal solutions from heuristics procedures or empirical methods were available.
Download or read book Models and Solution Methods for Chemical Production Scheduling written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical production scheduling optimization has the potential to reduce operating cost, increase profits, and improve efficiency. These optimization problems often formulated as mixed integer programming models which, despite advances in computer hardware and optimization software, remain hard to solve. We first formulate a more general model and then develop several solution methods to speed up the computational times. We show that the production environment can be defined by material handling constraints and formulate a general model that is valid for all production environments. We develop new formulations for processes with changeovers and compare their relative tightness and present computational results for several example problems. In the first solution method, customer orders are propagated backwards through the network to find the minimum amount of material each task must process, providing a lower bound on the number of times each task must run. We extend these methods to the general model. This method is most effective for cost minimization and can lead to a 2-3 order-of-magnitude improvement in computational time. The next method reduces the size of the model by using different time grids for each task, unit, material, and utility. We prove that this formulation will have the same optimal solution as a single-grid formulation. This method is most effective for makespan. The third method uses a parallel batch-and-bound algorithm. The scheduling problem is divided into subproblems by branching on the number of times each task runs. Each of these subproblems is solved in parallel by a separate core and may be divided further. Many difficult problems can be solved to optimality with this method. The final method is the simplest and most effective. Many equivalent schedules can be formed by simply shifting tasks in units with idle time earlier or later. These schedules have the same number of batches and similar objectives. Introducing a new integer variable representing the number of batches of each task allows the solver to branch on this variable to find truly different schedules quickly. This method is the most effective with over 2, 3, or 4 orders-of-magnitude improvements for makespan, profit, and cost optimization respectively.
Download or read book Solving Large Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries written by Georgios M. Kopanos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are applicable to scenarios and countries around the world. Specifically, these case studies include: • the production planning of the bottling stage of a major brewery at the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Heineken Int) in Mexico;• the production scheduling for multi-stage semicontinuous processes at an ice-cream production facility of Unilever in the Netherlands;• the resource-constrained production planning for the yogurt production line at the KRI KRI dairy production facility in Greece; and• the production scheduling for large-scale, multi-stage batch processes at a pharmaceutical batch plant in Germany. In addition, the book includes industrial-inspired case studies of: • the simultaneous planning of production and logistics operations considering multi-site facilities for semicontinuous processes; and• the integrated planning of production and utility systems in process industries under uncertainty. Solving Large-scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries offers a valuable reference guide for researchers and decision-makers alike, as it shows readers how to evaluate and improve existing installations, and how to design new ones. It is also well suited as a textbook for advanced courses on production scheduling and planning in industry, as it addresses the optimization of production and logistics operations in real-world process industries.
Download or read book Disjunctive Programming written by Egon Balas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disjunctive Programming is a technique and a discipline initiated by the author in the early 1970's, which has become a central tool for solving nonconvex optimization problems like pure or mixed integer programs, through convexification (cutting plane) procedures combined with enumeration. It has played a major role in the revolution in the state of the art of Integer Programming that took place roughly during the period 1990-2010. The main benefit that the reader may acquire from reading this book is a deeper understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and of the applications potential of disjunctive programming, which range from more efficient problem formulation to enhanced modeling capability and improved solution methods for integer and combinatorial optimization. Egon Balas is University Professor and Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.
Download or read book Commemorative Issue to Celebrate the Life and Work of Prof Roger W H Sargent written by Rafiqul Gani and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the life, work and influence of Professor Roger W.H. Sargent of Imperial College London. It does so through a range of original contributions that span the wide academic and industry interests of Professor Sargent. Roger Sargent passed away in late 2018, but his legacy lives on through his enormous academic tree, which traces to the early 1960s. That huge body of work has also had significant impacts on industrial practices. Roger was regarded as “the father of Process Systems Engineering (PSE)”. This area of Chemical Engineering continues to influence the modelling, design, control, optimization and integrated performance of industrial and related processes. This book highlights some of those impacts and the ongoing importance of PSE in helping to solve some of the grand challenges of our time.
Download or read book Scheduling in Industry 4 0 and Cloud Manufacturing written by Boris Sokolov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has resulted from the activities of IFAC TC 5.2 “Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control”. The book offers an introduction and advanced techniques of scheduling applications to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 systems for larger audience. This book uncovers fundamental principles and recent developments in the theory and application of scheduling methodology to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0. The purpose of this book is to present recent developments in scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 and to systemize these developments in new taxonomies and methodological principles to shape this new research domain. This book addresses the needs of both researchers and practitioners to uncover the challenges and opportunities of scheduling techniques’ applications to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0. For the first time, it comprehensively conceptualizes scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 systems as a new research domain. The chapters of the book are written by the leading international experts and utilize methods of operations research, industrial engineering and computer science. Such a multi-disciplinary combination is unique and comprehensively deciphers major problem taxonomies, methodologies, and applications to scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0.
Download or read book 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by Stefan Radl and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 1766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Volume 43 contains the papers presented at the 28th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Graz, Austria June 10-13 , 2018. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. Presents findings and discussions from the 28th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event
Download or read book 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 2667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering contains the papers presented at the 12th Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and 25th European Society of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Joint Event held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 31 May - 4 June 2015. The purpose of these series is to bring together the international community of researchers and engineers who are interested in computing-based methods in process engineering. This conference highlights the contributions of the PSE/CAPE community towards the sustainability of modern society. Contributors from academia and industry establish the core products of PSE/CAPE, define the new and changing scope of our results, and future challenges. Plenary and keynote lectures discuss real-world challenges (globalization, energy, environment, and health) and contribute to discussions on the widening scope of PSE/CAPE versus the consolidation of the core topics of PSE/CAPE. - Highlights how the Process Systems Engineering/Computer-Aided Process Engineering community contributes to the sustainability of modern society - Presents findings and discussions from both the 12th Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and 25th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Events - Establishes the core products of Process Systems Engineering/Computer Aided Process Engineering - Defines the future challenges of the Process Systems Engineering/Computer Aided Process Engineering community
Download or read book Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers written by Mariano Martín Martín and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of chemical engineering is in constant evolution, and access to information technology is changing the way chemical engineering problems are addressed. Inspired by the need for a user-friendly chemical engineering text that demonstrates the real-world applicability of different computer programs, Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers acquaints readers with the capabilities of various general purpose, mathematical, process modeling and simulation, optimization, and specialized software packages, while explaining how to use the software to solve typical problems in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, mass and energy balances, unit operations, reactor engineering, and process and equipment design and control. Employing nitric acid production, methanol and ammonia recycle loops, and SO2 oxidation reactor case studies and other practical examples, Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers shows how computer packages such as Excel, MATLAB®, Mathcad, CHEMCAD, Aspen HYSYS®, gPROMS, CFD, DEM, GAMS, and AIMMS are used in the design and operation of chemical reactors, distillation columns, cooling towers, and more. Make Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers your go-to guide and quick reference for the use of computer software in chemical engineering applications.
Download or read book Engineering Analytics written by Luis Rabelo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering analytics is becoming a necessary skill for every engineer. Areas such as Operations Research, Simulation, and Machine Learning can be totally transformed through massive volumes of data. This book is intended to be an introduction to Engineering Analytics that can be used to improve performance tracking, customer segmentation for resource optimization, patterns and classification strategies, and logistics control towers. Basic methods in the areas of visual, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and Big Data are introduced. Industrial case studies and example problem demonstrations are used throughout the book to reinforce the concepts and applications. The book goes on to cover visual analytics and its relationships, simulation from the respective dimensions and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from different paradigms viewpoints. The book is intended for professionals wanting to work on analytical problems, for Engineering students, Researchers, Chief-Technology Officers, and Directors that work within the areas and fields of Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering Operations Research, and Big Data.
Download or read book Beyond the Molecular Frontier written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry and chemical engineering have changed significantly in the last decade. They have broadened their scopeâ€"into biology, nanotechnology, materials science, computation, and advanced methods of process systems engineering and controlâ€"so much that the programs in most chemistry and chemical engineering departments now barely resemble the classical notion of chemistry. Beyond the Molecular Frontier brings together research, discovery, and invention across the entire spectrum of the chemical sciencesâ€"from fundamental, molecular-level chemistry to large-scale chemical processing technology. This reflects the way the field has evolved, the synergy at universities between research and education in chemistry and chemical engineering, and the way chemists and chemical engineers work together in industry. The astonishing developments in science and engineering during the 20th century have made it possible to dream of new goals that might previously have been considered unthinkable. This book identifies the key opportunities and challenges for the chemical sciences, from basic research to societal needs and from terrorism defense to environmental protection, and it looks at the ways in which chemists and chemical engineers can work together to contribute to an improved future.
Download or read book 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Chemical Engineering written by Anton A. Kiss and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 29th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from June 16-19, 2019. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. - Presents findings and discussions from the 29th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event
Download or read book Service Supply Chain Systems written by Tsan-Ming Choi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chain management is a well-developed area. The traditional supply chains are dynamic systems which include the forward and reverse flows of physical products and the related information and fund. However, a service supply chain is different because the real "product" may take the form of a "service" which implies that many traditionally cruc
Download or read book 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 3064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Volume 40 contains the papers presented at the 27th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Barcelona, October 1-5, 2017. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. - Presents findings and discussions from the 27th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event
Download or read book Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Workshop Advances in Service Research Karlsruhe Germany February 2015 written by Goerlitz, Roland and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
