Pump allocation at a New Zealand oil refinery

Pump allocation at a New Zealand oil refinery. Henderson, S. G., Gill, G., & Patel, P. In Models for Optimum Decision Making in Crude Oil Production and Refining. Springer, 2020.

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We consider a non-traditional assignment problem that arose at a New Zealand oil refinery. A mixed integer program is developed to determine an assignment of pumps to tanks that minimizes the time required to perform a blending operation. The formulation involves a non-traditional transformation of the objective function which is interesting in its own right. An extension, in which we show how to reduce the pumping time by using more expensive component materials used in the blend, is provided here.

@incollection{henpat00,
	abstract = {We consider a non-traditional assignment problem that arose at a New
Zealand oil refinery. A mixed integer program is developed to
determine an assignment of pumps to tanks that minimizes the time
required to perform a blending operation. The formulation involves a
non-traditional transformation of the objective function which is
interesting in its own right. 

An extension, in which we show how to reduce the pumping time by using
more expensive component materials used in the blend, is provided here.},
	author = {S. G. Henderson and G. Gill and P. Patel},
	booktitle = {Models for Optimum Decision Making in Crude Oil Production and Refining},
	date-added = {2019-11-16 14:16:04 -0800},
	date-modified = {2019-11-16 14:16:04 -0800},
	editor = {K. Murty},
	publisher = {Springer},
	title = {Pump allocation at a {N}ew {Z}ealand oil refinery},
	url_paper = {pubs/Pumps-extended.pdf},
	year = {2020}}

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