A dynamic programming extension to the steady state refinery-LP

Abstract

Standard LPs, widely used for planning in the processing industry, are powerful tools for making economic decisions, but do not cover time relationships inside the planning timeframe. To include sequence-dependent issues within the optimization process, an algorithmic extension to the LP was developed. DPX (Dynamic Programming Extension) is used to solve a whole class of problems that are dynamic in time.Linear programming Dynamic programming Sequencing Scheduling