23rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Resource-Task Network Based Approach for Industrial Demand Side Management of Steel Production

Lige Sun^a, Iiro Harjunkoski^b∗ and Pedro Castro^c,    ^aRWTH University, Templergraben 55, 52062 Aachen, Germany, ^bCorporate Research, Wallstadter Str. 59, 68526 Ladenburg, Germany, ^cLaboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia, 1649-038 Lisboa, Portugal, ^∗Corresponding author, [e-mail]

Abstract

In today’s energy markets there is a growing effort in the alignment of the industrial sector to the power grid for the sake of efficient energy distribution and consumption. The steel making industry, as one of the most energy-intensive stakeholders, may play an important role in this context. In this paper, we use the Resource Task Network (RTN) ...