Rocco, Cleber Damião; Morabito, Reinaldo - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 65 (2014) 12, pp. 1896-1904
This study presents an optimization approach by mathematical modelling to support some of the main operational decisions in steam production systems with multiple industrial boilers. Decisions are related to boiler operations scheduling (start-up, warm-up and shutdown time), fuel replenishment...