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Pump Allocation at a New Zealand Oil Refinery

In: Models for Optimum Decision Making

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  • Shane G. Henderson

    (Cornell University)

  • Geoffrey Gill

    (Viva Energy Refining Pty Ltd)

  • Parvati Patel

    (Hamilton City Council)

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.

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  • Shane G. Henderson & Geoffrey Gill & Parvati Patel, 2020. "Pump Allocation at a New Zealand Oil Refinery," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Katta G. Murty (ed.), Models for Optimum Decision Making, chapter 0, pages 69-77, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-030-40212-9_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40212-9_8
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