The strategic importance of teaching Operations Research for achieving high performance in the petroleum refining business

Joly, Marcel; Rocha, Roger; Sousa, Luiz Carlos F.; Takahashi, M.T.; Mendonça, Pierre N.; Moraes, Leonardo A.M.; Quelhas, André Domingues

doi:10.1016/j.ece.2014.11.001

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“…By implementing continued technical and technological education actions inside the industrial environment (e.g., Joly et al, 2015). A first challenge lies on the fact that an oil refinery is an open system.…”

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Refinery production scheduling toward Industry 4.0

Joly¹,

Odloak²,

Miyake³

et al. 2018

Front. Eng

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Understanding the holistic relationship between refinery production scheduling (RPS) and the cyber-physical production environment with smart scheduling is a new question posed in the study of process systems engineering. Here, we discuss state-of-the-art RSPs in the crude-oil refining field and present examples that illustrate how smart scheduling can impact operations in the high-performing chemical process industry. We conclude that, more than any traditional off-the-shelf RPS solution available today, flexible and integrative specialized modeling platforms will be increasingly necessary to perform decentralized and collaborative optimizations, since they are the technological alternatives closer to the advanced manufacturing philosophy.

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Section: Information Technology and The Internetmentioning

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Refinery production scheduling toward Industry 4.0

Joly¹,

Odloak²,

Miyake³

et al. 2018

Front. Eng

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“…Based on the aforementioned importance to integrate OR into the ChE curriculum, an undergraduate course was idealized by the authors based on a pioneer corporate-wide strategic learning program on OR techniques taught at Petrobras for chemical engineers working at the planning/scheduling department ( Joly et al, 2015a) and on the graduate course Optimization of Chemical Process offered to master and doctorate students. This new course, entitled Optimization Applied to Industry Operations Management, was firstly taught in 2014 as one of the elective options to the students during the last academic period.…”

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Chemical Engineering and Operations Research: A Passing Flirtation or Marriage?

Joly

Gut

2016

Rev. Grad. USP

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Since the 1980's, the technological partnership between Petrobras and the University of São Paulo (USP) in the field of industrial automation has been prolific in double lane. Relevant scientific and technological contributions have continuously been produced within several related chemical engineering (ChE) disciplines. Among the latest results from this fertile collaboration is the exciting discipline Optimization Applied to Operations Management in the Chemical Industry which now is part of the USP undergraduate course curriculum in ChE as an elective course in the last academic period. Derived from an educational program formulated inside the Petrobras' industrial environment devoted to teaching Operations Research (OR) foundations to process engineers and from a graduate course on process optimization, this new course was idealized and didactically supported by the Petrobras Centre of Excellence (Cetai) and has been an undeniable success among the ChE students at USP. The relevance of this result -OR learning at undergraduate level -is here discussed in the light of the crucial role that computer-aided decision-making technologies currently have to the integrated performance of the chemical industry. Most importantly, such OR learning should be understood as a former, yet essential step for ChE students to develop high-profile interdisciplinary research in the modern ChE science. Keywords RESUMODesde a década de 1980, a parceria tecnológica entre a Petrobras e a Universidade de São Paulo (USP) na área da automação industrial tem se revelado prolífica em via dupla. Contribuições científicas e tecnológicas relevantes têm sido continuamente produzidas no âmbito do domínio científico da Engenharia Química. Entre os mais recentes resultados desta fecunda parceria está a criação da disciplina Otimização Aplicada à Gestão de Operações da Indústria Química, a qual agora compõe o currículo do curso de graduação em Engenharia Química da Escola Politécnica da USP na modalidade de disciplina optativa oferecida no último período acadêmico. Baseada em um programa de capacitação tecnológica voltado ao ensino de fundamentos de Pesquisa Operacional (PO) a engenheiros de processamento da Petrobras dentro do ambiente industrial e em um curso de pós-graduação em PO, esta nova disciplina foi idealizada e estruturada com apoio do Centro de Excelência em Tecnologias de Aplicação em Automação Industrial (Cetai -Petrobras) e tem se revelado um sucesso inegável entre os estudantes de Engenharia Química da USP. A importância deste resultado -aprendizagem de PO em nível de graduação -é aqui discutida à luz do papel crucial que tecnologias de apoio à tomada de decisões assistida por computador possui atualmente para a operação integrada da indústria química. Mais importante ainda é o fato de que a capacitação em PO pode ser entendida como uma etapa prévia, porém valiosa, para alavancar o desenvolvimento de pesquisa interdisciplinar de fronteira no âmbito da Engenharia Química moderna. Palavras-Chave:Complexidade; Emergentismo;...

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“…Then, the corporate systems and databases are integrated (Zhang and Valleur, 2010), and the RPS system functions are subjected to offline evaluation tests (three to six months). The final steps are training (Joly et al, 2015) and mentoring in real-world settings ("assisted operation," weeks to months).…”

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“…and Ph.D. programs) in OR is effective in augmenting staff commitment and motivation (Kelly et al, 2014;Nishioka et al, 2012). In fact, implementing training programs in OR foundations in the industrial environment is a strategic action (Joly et al, 2015) that not only improves staff motivation in pursuing enhanced decisionmaking quality but also catalyzes change in cultures and paradigms. Paradigms are defined as a "set of theories, beliefs, values, instruments, and methods" (Thomas Kuhn quoted in Lenas and Luyten, 2011), which, according to Lenas and Luyten (2011), are "based on past scientific achievements that are acknowledged by a particular scientific community as the foundation of its research practice."…”

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Lessons learned from developing and implementing refinery production scheduling technologies

Joly¹,

Miyake²

2017

Front. Eng

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An increasing number of novel and highly specialized computer-aided decision-making technologies for short-term production scheduling in oil refineries has emerged and evolved over the past two decades, thereby encouraging refiners to permanently rethink the way the refining business is operated and managed. In this report, we discuss the key lessons learned from one of the pioneering, yet daring, enterprise-wide programs entirely implemented in an energy company devoted to developing and implementing an advanced refinery production scheduling (RPS) technology, i.e., the RPS system of Petrobras. Apart from mathematical and information technology issues, the long-term sustainability of a successful RPS project is, we argue, the outcome of a virtuous cycle grounded on permanent actions devoted to improving technical education inside the organization, reinspecting organizational cultures and operational paradigms, and developing working processes.

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The strategic importance of teaching Operations Research for achieving high performance in the petroleum refining business

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References 51 publications

Refinery production scheduling toward Industry 4.0

Refinery production scheduling toward Industry 4.0

Chemical Engineering and Operations Research: A Passing Flirtation or Marriage?

Lessons learned from developing and implementing refinery production scheduling technologies

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