کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
173479 458594 2010 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Efficient bulk maritime logistics for the supply and delivery of multiple chemicals
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی مهندسی شیمی (عمومی)
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Efficient bulk maritime logistics for the supply and delivery of multiple chemicals
چکیده انگلیسی

Many multinational chemical companies (MNCs) manage the inventories of several raw materials at their worldwide sites. Maritime transportation plays a key role in this chemical logistics. In this paper, we address an inventory service problem in which a chemical MNC uses a fleet of multi-parcel ships with dedicated compartments to move multiple chemicals continually among its internal and external production and consumption sites. The objective is to ensure continuity of operation at all sites by maintaining adequate inventory levels of all raw materials. We develop a novel multi-grid continuous-time mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation based (Susarla, Li, & Karimi, 2010) for this chemical logistics problem. Our model allows limited jetties at each site, non-zero transfer times, variable load/unload quantities, transfer task sequencing, etc. In contrast to the literature, it needs no separate estimates for arrivals at each site. Several examples are solved to illustrate the efficiency of our proposed formulation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Computers & Chemical Engineering - Volume 34, Issue 12, 9 December 2010, Pages 2118–2128
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