SCHEDULING AND DESIGN FOR COST MINIMIZATION OF MULTIPURPOSE BATCH PLANT
Soon-Ki Heo, Kyu Hwang Lee, Ho-Kyung Lee* and In-Beum Lee
Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyoja-Dong Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, Korea
* Senior Research Scientist of Chemical Process & Catalysis Research Institute LG Chem, Ltd. Research Park P.O. Box 61, Yu Seong, Science Town Daejeon, Korea
In this paper, multipurpose scheduling and design problems are treated simultaneously in order to minimize investment cost of plant with taking into account completion times, cycle times and equipment sizes. Usually, equipment sizes are considered as continuous variable. And processing time of task is usually assumed to be independent of batch size. However, most of manufactured equipments have their standard volume. And processing times are dependent on batch sizes. In this research, the volumes of equipments are considered as discrete variables and processing time is a function of batch size in order to apply these optimization problems to real industries.
Keywords: Scheduling, Design, MILP, Multipurpose Batch Pant, Discrete Volume, Cost Minimization
Session slot T-Mo-A21: System Engineering, Management and Control Education/Area code 5e : Computation in Economic, Financial and Engineering-Economic Systems

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