Discrete flow pooling problems in coal supply chains

Title: Discrete flow pooling problems in coal supply chains
Creator: Boland, N.; Kalinowski, T.; Rigterink, F.
Relation: 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Proceedings of the 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015) (Gold Coast, Qld 29 November - 04 December, 2015) p. 1710-1716
Relation: ARC.LP110200524
Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2015
Description: Abstract: The pooling problem is a nonconvex nonlinear programming problem (NLP) with applications in the refining and petrochemical industries, but also the coal mining industry. The problem can be stated as follows: given a set of raw material suppliers (inputs) and qualities of the supplies, find a cost-minimising way of blending these raw materials in intermediate pools and outputs so as to satisfy requirements on the output qualities. The blending in two stages (in pools and outputs) introduces bilinear constraints. The pooling problem can alternatively be described as a minimum cost network flow problem with additional bilinear constraints to capture the blending of raw materials.
Subject: coal blending; pooling problem; mixed-integer nonlinear programming; mixed-integer linear programming
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328723
Identifier: uon:25979
Identifier: ISBN:9780987214355
Language: eng
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