THE LIMITING VOLUME OF SINGLE-INPUT SINGLE OUTPUT INTERMEDIATE STORAGE IN BATCH PROCESSES UNDER PERIODIC PRODUCTION FAILURE

An analysis has been performed of the capacity of intermediate storage vessels required to buffer the effects of periodic production failure . Simple analytical expressions for the limiting volume of the storage as a function of failure frequency and system parameters have been de veloped for SISO storage system under the assumption that system varia bles were integer number. All these simple analytical expressions are directly useful for determining the storage size and are the bases for more advanced engineering study such as; operations research, control ler design and process synthesis.