Effect of multiple water resources in a flexible-schedule batch water network
The operating cost of a water network can be significantly reduced via utilization of multiple water resources. In a batch process, scheduling plays a vital role towards resource conservation. This work analyzes the effect of multiple water resources on a batch water network schedule. It is proven t...
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Elsevier Ltd
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/72374/ https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84977995940&doi=10.1016%2fj.jclepro.2016.03.018&partnerID=40&md5=b67b46e7c5de0d20f5e5e58130537485 |
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| Summary: | The operating cost of a water network can be significantly reduced via utilization of multiple water resources. In a batch process, scheduling plays a vital role towards resource conservation. This work analyzes the effect of multiple water resources on a batch water network schedule. It is proven that, in minimizing the operating cost of a batch water network, the exact schedule that leads to the minimum operating cost for multiple water resources also applies to systems involving a single water resource. This leads to a vital theorem that, once the optimum schedule for a single resource leading to the minimum operating cost is obtained, the same schedule can be applied for problems involving multiple resources. The findings in this paper have provided a simplified conceptual approach of dealing with scheduling problems with multiple water resources. Applicability of the proposed theorem is demonstrated via an illustrative example. |
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