Article ID: | iaor20022613 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 138 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 554 |
End Page Number: | 568 |
Publication Date: | May 2002 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Jaikumar Ramchandran, Rajaram Kumar |
Keywords: | decision |
We develop a technique for operational decision making at a starch refinery. The dynamic set of input control decisions required at process stages is computed based on overall production objectives. This technique, implemented as an interactive decision support system for on-line process control, has already contributed to significantly reducing the duration of transients, which, in turn, has directly increased daily refinery production by more than 18%.