Implementation of an integrated production and electricity optimization system in melt shop

D Gajic, H Hadera, L Onofri, I Harjunkoski… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
The production of stainless steel begins by melting of scrap in melt shop that is known as
one of the most electricity intensive processes. Volatile and uncertain renewable energy …

Exact and heuristic solution approaches for energy-efficient identical parallel machine scheduling with time-of-use costs

M Gaggero, M Paolucci, R Ronco - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, energy-efficient scheduling has assumed a key role in ensuring the
sustainability of manufacturing processes. In this context, we focus on the bi-objective …

Batch scheduling with quality-based changeovers

B Brunaud, HD Perez, S Amaran, S Bury… - Computers & Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Four of the main modeling frameworks for batch scheduling are compared and extended to
include quality-based changeovers (QBC), a procedure in which the equipment cleaning …

Computational experiment-based evaluation on context-aware O2O service recommendation

X Xue, H Han, S Wang, C Qin - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
O2O (online to offline) service recommendation is a typical context-aware service
application, which needs to provide the most suitable services to customers in time …

Robust optimization for integrated scrap steel charge considering uncertain metal elements concentrations and production scheduling under time-of-use electricity …

Y Yang, W Chen, L Wei, X Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Under the background of time-of-use electricity tariff, the problems of scrap steel charge
optimization considering metal elements concentrations uncertainty and scrap steel melt …

Greenhouse gas contribution and emission reduction potential prediction of China's aluminum industry

J Wang, Q Zhao, P Ning, S Wen - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The aluminum industry, with its traditionally high energy consumption, high emissions and
high pollution, is facing increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in …

Increase of capacity in electric arc-furnace steel mill factories by means of a demand-side management strategy and ampacity techniques

M Manana, AF Zobaa, A Vaccaro, A Arroyo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
An electric arc-furnace is a complex industry which demands high levels of electrical energy
in order to heat iron materials and other additives needed for the production of cast iron …

Capacity acquisition for the single-item lot sizing problem under energy constraints

C Rapine, B Penz, C Gicquel, A Akbalik - Omega, 2018 - Elsevier
We study a single-item lot sizing problem integrated with some energy constraints, called
energy-LSP in the rest of the paper. We consider a production system composed of identical …

Scheduling a storage-augmented discrete production facility under incentive-based demand response

T Weitzel, CH Glock - International Journal of Production Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Demand response (DR) is considered as one of the most important measures for balancing
energy supply and demand in the smart grid paradigm. Incentive-based programs, one …

Hierarchical control of aluminum smelter loads for primary frequency support considering control cost

P Bao, W Zhang, D Cheng, M Liu - … Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Providing ancillary service with controllable loads has drawn increasing attention from
academia and industry. This paper proposes a hierarchical control strategy for aluminum …