Optimal maintenance scheduling of a gas engine power plant using generalized disjunctive programming

PM Castro, IE Grossmann, P Veldhuizen… - AIChE …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A new continuous‐time model for long‐term scheduling of a gas engine power plant with
parallel units is presented. Gas engines are shut down according to a regular maintenance …

Efficient planning of energy production and maintenance of large-scale combined heat and power plants

GM Kopanos, OC Murele, J Silvente, N Zhakiyev… - Energy Conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, an efficient optimization framework is presented for the simultaneous planning
of energy production and maintenance in combined heat and power plants, and applied in …

Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-cogeneration plants using integer programming

M Alardhi, AW Labib - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Maintenance scheduling of cogeneration plants, which produce both electric power and
desalinated water, is a typical complex process with long-term operations and planning …

Minimizing equipment shutdowns in oil and gas campaign maintenance

Z Seif, E Mardaneh, R Loxton… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the problem of scheduling periodic maintenance items for oil and gas
plants. Each maintenance item involves various maintenance tasks and may require …

Total-site scheduling for better energy utilization

KY Cheung, CW Hui - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2004 - Elsevier
Improving energy efficiency is one of the most important issues for clean production. In a
chemical production site, production and utility plants are highly interactive and are all …

Preventive maintenance scheduling for multi‐cogeneration plants with production constraints

M Alardhi, RG Hannam, AW Labib - Journal of Quality in Maintenance …, 2007 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper describes a method developed to schedule the preventive
maintenance tasks in separate and linked cogeneration plants while satisfying the …

MILP formulations for generator maintenance scheduling in hydropower systems

JA Rodriguez, MF Anjos, P Côté… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintenance activities help prevent costly generator breakdowns but because generators
under maintenance are typically unavailable, the impact of maintenance schedules is …

A rolling horizon approach for scheduling of multiproduct batch production and maintenance using generalized disjunctive programming models

O Wu, G Dalle Ave, I Harjunkoski, L Imsland - Computers & Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper considers joint production and maintenance scheduling of a multiproduct batch
chemical manufacturing plant. A Generalized Disjunctive Programming-based formulation is …

Optimization of multipurpose process plant operations: A multi-time-scale maintenance and production scheduling approach

M Biondi, G Sand, I Harjunkoski - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Scheduling of production and maintenance plays a fundamental role in the effective
operation of process plants. Frequently the two decision processes are independently …

A constraint programming-based approach to a large-scale energy management problem with varied constraints: A solution approach to the ROADEF/EURO …

F Brandt, R Bauer, M Völker, A Cardeneo - Journal of Scheduling, 2013 - Springer
This paper addresses a large-scale power plant maintenance scheduling and production
planning problem, which has been proposed by the ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2010. We …