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A refrigerated gas plant (RGP) faces operational challenges on three fronts namely: 1) at the plant inlet, fluctuations in flow rate and composition caused by multiple feed gas streams; 2) within RGP, unscheduled shutdowns due to equipment malfunction; 3) at the outlet, strict product specifications enforced by the customers. These challenges force RGP to improve its efficiency in order to sustain profitability. An identified area for improvement is during operational planning. This type of planning poses a short-term and continuous scheduling problem in which preconfigured setpoints are...

Space-time modeling of atmospheric pollutants has been actively attempted by many workers, including Kyriakidis (1999) who successfully integrated the deterministic trend m(t) and the probabilistic residual R(t) components of a random variable RV Z(t) through a stochastic simulation approach. However, many of the spatiotemporal studies carried a major assumption that the temporal aspect is fully understood and thus focused primarily on spatial modeling. The main objective of this work is concerned with evaluating the accuracy and suitability of the techniques used for modeling the temporal...