Refinery production planning and scheduling: the refining core business
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Refinery Production Planning and Scheduling: the Refining Core Business
Intelligent production planning and scheduling are of paramount importance to ensure refinery profitability, logistic reliability and safety at the local and corporate levels. In Brazil, such activities play a particularly critical role, since the Brazilian downstream model is moving towards a demand-driven model rather than a supply-driven one. Moreover, new and specialized non-linear constrai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0104-6632
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-66322012000200017