Yard allocation strategy for coal terminals based on knowledge engineering
Qiang Li · Journal of Shanghai, Maritime University · 2012
In order to make better use of the yard resources of bulk terminals,the knowledge acquisition and rule-based reasoning are used to establish the yard allocation strategy for coal terminal.According to the features of the coal itself and the demand of shipment,combined with the management principles of the yard of coal terminal and the characteristics of equipment,the basic rules of yard allocation strategy for coal terminal is gotten and the model of yard allocation for coal terminal is built based on the knowledge engineering.The suitable regions for the coal which need to be stacked are selected through the regional demarcation,equipment and yard matching and best region choosing,and the effective yard allocation strategy is provided for coal terminal.Case studies show that this method can improve the utilization of the yard and the production efficiency of the coal terminal.