Designing Optimal Timing and Sequencing Strategies for a Continuous Steel Foundry

Reference

B. De Schutter, "Designing optimal timing and sequencing strategies for a continuous steel foundry," Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1999 (ECC'99), Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 pp., Aug.-Sept. 1999. Paper 160 / BP-2.6.

Abstract

In this paper we consider a typical case study of a continuous steel making process. More specifically, we consider the part of a steel plant consisting of the furnace, the secondary steel making units and the continuous caster. First we write down a model for the evolution of the system. Then we develop some techniques to design (sub)optimal timing and sequencing schemes for this system. The methods we use include a mixture of linear programming, genetic algorithms, tabu search and heuristics.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{DeS:98-03,
   author    = {De Schutter, Bart},
   title     = {Designing Optimal Timing and Sequencing Strategies for a
                Continuous Steel Foundry},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1999 (ECC'99)},
   address   = {Karlsruhe, Germany},
   month     = aug # {--} # sep,
   year      = {1999},
   note      = {Paper 160\,/\,BP-2.6}
   }


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