Optimal Scheduling of Refined Products Pipelines with Multiple Sources
Most contributions on short-term planning of multiproduct pipeline operations deal with pipelines featuring a single input terminal. In common-carrier pipelines, however, several refineries located at different sites use the same trunk line for shipping refined petroleum products to downstream outpu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/26044 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26044 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Refined Product Pipelines Multiple Sources Scheduling Optimization Approach https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.4 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2 |
| Sumario: | Most contributions on short-term planning of multiproduct pipeline operations deal with pipelines featuring a single input terminal. In common-carrier pipelines, however, several refineries located at different sites use the same trunk line for shipping refined petroleum products to downstream output terminals. They can be regarded as multiple-source pipelines with input facilities at non-origin points. The operation of intermediate sources raises some new difficult issues. Pumping runs taking place at intermediate locations can either insert a new lot or increase the size of a batch in transit. Batches are no longer arranged in the line in the same order that they are injected, and tracking the batch sequence becomes a more complex task. This paper introduces a novel continuous formulation for the scheduling of multiple-source pipelines operating on fungible or segregated mode. A case study involving a pipeline with two input and three output terminals, transporting three distillates was successfully solved over a 10-day time horizon. |
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