REDUCTION OF OIL PIPILINE OPERATING COST BY OPTIMIZING PIPELINE OPERATION SEQUENCE PLAN

Planning the operation of a large real-world oil pipeline

A set of oil derivative distribution depots, including refineries and terminals, have local demands and productions for different products in a given time horizon. However, in a certain period there may be not enough local stock of some product to satisfy the corresponding demand. This brings the need for transportation of oil derivatives through a network of pipelines. To accomplish that, a ta...

Optimizing Operating Cost of an Intrusion Detection System

Very often it so happens that the cost of operating an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) exceeds the cost of purchasing the IDS itself. In such cases, regular operation and maintenance of the system becomes expensive. Thus, it becomes essential to reduce the operating cost of the IDS without compromising on the performance and reliability of the IDS. Apart from the initial cost of procuring the ...

Operation of a Pipeline

Optimal Operation of a DWC by Self-Optimizing Control: Active Vapor Split Approach

Dividing Wall Column(DWC) offers the large potential for operating and capital cost saving in compared with conventional distillation sequence. In the studied DWC in this study, the aid of Vmin diagrams, it is shown that without a suitable value for vapor split fraction bellow the dividing wall in different operating conditions, the energy requirement increases from optimal value and it wil...

Optimizing the Long-Term Operating Plan of Railway Marshalling Station for Capacity Utilization Analysis

Not only is the operating plan the basis of organizing marshalling station's operation, but it is also used to analyze in detail the capacity utilization of each facility in marshalling station. In this paper, a long-term operating plan is optimized mainly for capacity utilization analysis. Firstly, a model is developed to minimize railcars' average staying time with the constraints of minimum ...