Scope for optimal Scheduling of Multiproduct Pipelines with Multi-batch Sequential transportation

The optimal scheduling of multiproduct pipelines is benefit to improve the transport economy and safety, thus making great sense to the operation and management of multiproduct pipelines. During the last decade, a large number of domestic and foreign studies have been widely done on this topic. Based on the related literature, the paper summarizes the research emphasis, analyzes different modeling methods and solving algorithms 4Kand finally provides the outlook for the further researches on the scheduling optimization.