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Blending ores

Description
Several ores are blended to a final product that must have a certain quality ('grade'). We wish to determine the quantity of every ore to be used in the blend with the objective to maximize the total profit (calculated as sales revenues - raw material cost).
  • simple LP problem
  • data in model or input from file
  • bounds on variables
Further explanation of this example: 'Mosel User Guide', Section 2.2 'A blending example'; 'Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', Section 2.7 'Blending constraints'. Similar problems: Section 6.1 'Production of alloys' (a1alloy.mos), Section 6.2 'Animal food production' (a2food.mos), Section 6.3 'Refinery' (a3refine.mos)

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blending_graph.mos

(!******************************************************
   Mosel Example Problems
   ======================

   file blending.mos
   `````````````````
   TYPE:         Blending problem
   DIFFICULTY:   1
   FEATURES:     simple LP problem, formulation of blending constraints
   DESCRIPTION:  Several ores are blended to a final product that must
                 have a certain quality (`grade'). We wish to determine 
                 the quantity of every ore to be used in the blend with 
                 the objective to maximize the total profit (calculated 
                 as sales revenues - raw material cost).     
   FURTHER INFO: `Mosel User Guide', Section 2.2 `A blending example';
                 `Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', 
                 Section 2.7 `Blending constraints'.
                 Similar problems: Section 6.1 `Production of alloys',
                 Section 6.2 `Animal food production',  Section 6.3 `Refinery'

   (c) 2008 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S.Heipcke, Jan. 2001, rev. Sep. 2017
*******************************************************!)

model blending
 uses "mmxprs", "mmsvg"

 declarations
  ROres = 1..2                 ! Range of Ores
  REV = 125                    ! Unit revenue of product
  MINGRADE = 4                 ! Min permitted grade of product
  MAXGRADE = 5                 ! Max permitted grade of product
  COST: array(ROres) of real   ! Unit cost of ores
  AVAIL: array(ROres) of real  ! Availability of ores
  GRADE: array(ROres) of real  ! Grade of ores (measured per unit of mass)

  x: array(ROres) of mpvar     ! Quantities of ores used
  
 end-declarations

 COST :: [85, 93]
 AVAIL:: [60, 45]
 GRADE:: [2.1, 6.3]
                               
! Objective: maximize total profit
 Profit:= sum(o in ROres) (REV-COST(o))* x(o)  

! Lower and upper bounds on ore quality
 LoGrade:= sum(o in ROres) (GRADE(o)-MINGRADE) * x(o) >= 0
 UpGrade:= sum(o in ROres) (MAXGRADE-GRADE(o)) * x(o) >= 0 

! Set upper bounds on variables
 forall(o in ROres) x(o) <= AVAIL(o)

! Solve the problem
 maximize(Profit)

! Solution printing
 writeln("Solution:\n Objective: ", getobjval)
 forall(o in ROres)  writeln(" x(" + o + "): ", getsol(x(o)))

! Solution drawing
 FACT:=20
 ttl:=sum(o in ROres) x(o).sol
 cum:=0.0
 forall(o in ROres) do
   svgaddgroup("O"+o, "Ore "+o)
   svgaddpie(100,100,55,cum,cum+(x(o).sol/ttl))
   cum+=x(o).sol/ttl
   svgaddline(175, GRADE(o)*FACT, 225, GRADE(o)*FACT)
 end-do
 svgaddgroup("msg", "", SVG_BLACK)
 svgaddtext(75,15, "Composition")
 svgaddtext(185,15, "Quality")

 svgaddgroup("lim", "Target quality range", SVG_GREEN)
 svgsetstyle(SVG_FILL,SVG_CURRENT)
 svgsetstyle(SVG_OPACITY, 0.5)
 svgaddrectangle(175, MINGRADE*FACT, 50, (MAXGRADE-MINGRADE)*FACT)

 svgaddgroup("final", "Blend quality", SVG_BROWN)
 svgsetstyle(SVG_OPACITY, 0.5)
 val:=sum(o in ROres) GRADE(o)*FACT* x(o).sol/ttl
 svgaddline(175, val, 225, val)

 svgsave("blend.svg")
 svgrefresh
 svgwaitclose("Close browser window to terminate model execution.", 1)
end-model

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