Research Article

A New MINLP Continuous Time Formulation for Scheduling Optimization of Oil Refinery with Unreliable CDUs

Table 13

Size and performance of the proposed model on case studies 1–4.

ParameterCase study
1234

No. of oil types4678
No. of charging tanks2333
No. of CDUs2345
No. of variables24589214202104
No. of constraints7214020706311312
CPU time (second)9761962256233471