Abstract:We consider the short-term scheduling of multistage continuous multiproduct plants. In the literature this problem is generally modeled as a monolithic mixed-integer program. In this paper we follow a closed-loop approach which starts from a decomposition of the problem into an operations planning and an operations scheduling problem. The operations planning problem consists in optimizing the operating conditions of the operations and can be formulated as a nonlinear program of moderate size. The solution to t… Show more
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