Pump Allocation at a New Zealand Oil Refinery

Shane G. Henderson (), Geoffrey Gill and Parvati Patel
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Shane G. Henderson: Cornell University
Geoffrey Gill: Viva Energy Refining Pty Ltd
Parvati Patel: Hamilton City Council

Chapter Chapter 8 in Models for Optimum Decision Making, 2020, pp 69-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers the problem of assigning a set of pumps to a set of component tanks so as to pump a prescribed volume from each component tank into a final blend tank as quickly as possible. This problem, which arose at a refinery in New Zealand, is important because delays in the blend can delay outgoing ships that take the blended product to market. Such delays incur large penalty costs. A mixed-integer programming formulation is derived that can be solved extremely quickly.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40212-9_8

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