Transportation planning for petroleum products and integrated inventory management
Title
Transportation planning for petroleum products and integrated inventory management
Subject
Scheduling
Petroleum industry
Pipelines
Refining
Petroleum transportation
Integer programming
Inventory control
Description
This study addresses the scheduling of an oil derivatives transportation system by a multiproduct pipeline that connects a single refinery to a distribution center (DC) and that meets the customer demands on a daily basis by considering integrated inventory management at the DC and refinery. A batch sequencing method is presented, which leads to a mixed integer linear programming formulation for determining the optimal pipeline batch sequence and the timing of product deliveries to the DC. Operational restrictions are also considered such as the continuous or discrete flow rate and high peak electricity periods. The experimental results obtained for several examples, including a real-world multiproduct pipeline in different scenarios, demonstrate that the proposed model yields an optimal pipeline schedule with low computational costs. 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
7630-7642
23-24
39
Publisher
Applied Mathematical Modelling
Date
2015
Contributor
Moradi, S.
MirHassani, S.A.
Type
journalArticle
Identifier
0307904X
10.1016/j.apm.2015.04.023
Collection
Citation
“Transportation planning for petroleum products and integrated inventory management,” Lamar University Midstream Center Research, accessed May 18, 2024, https://lumc.omeka.net/items/show/26505.