ABSTRACT
Scheduling of multipurpose batch plants has gotten considerable attention in the last two decades where considerable scheduling models have been proposed. The research direction has been to improve the existing scheduling models in terms of model size, computational time and optimal objective value. This chapter also has the same objective of presenting a better scheduling model that is compact and computationally efficient. The model is rigorous in handling the different intermediate storage policies and unit wait time. The binary variables, continuous variables, constraints and computational time required are reduced by almost 41%, 15%, 43% and 42%, respectively, when compared to the recent rigorous unit-specific event-based model for short-term scheduling of batch plants.
