Modeling the scheduling of a multi products pipeline: A case study in Algeria
Authors : Wassila Abdellaoui (Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of Tlemcen (MELT)), Mehdi Souier (Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of Tlemcen (MELT)), M'hammed SAHNOUN (LINEACT)
Conférence : Communications avec actes dans un congrès international - 15/04/2019 - 8th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization
The scheduling of the supply chain of the oil industry plays an important role for both international and national industrials sectors in order to provide oil products having a great place in the daily life of the individual and factories. Further, the unavailability of these products may lead to the cessation of activity and significant cost losses. In such circumstances, the scheduling of multiproduct pipeline problem becomes an attractive research area in the optimization framework of these supply chains. This paper deals with the operational scheduling of multi product pipeline to minimize the operational cost. The system under study represents real-world case study in Algeria and contains one refinery, multi centres. For modelling this problem, a mixed integer linear programming (MILP)continuous formulation is proposed in a horizon of one month divided in multiple periods with different demands.