Optimization Model of Oil-Volume Marking with Tilted Oil Tank

Wei Xie, Xiaojing Wang, Huizhe Cui, Jun Chen

Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, China.
School of Automation and Electronic Information, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, China.
School of Computer Science, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ojop.2012.12004                

Abstract

In this paper, the relationship model between the oil volume and the vertically tilting parameter (α), the horizontally tilting parameter (β) and the displayed height of oil (h^*) is first constructed with the tilted oil tank. Then, based on the data of the oil output volume at different time of day, an optimization model of oil-volume marking with tilted oil tank is established. Finally, parameters α = 2.2° and β = 3.05° are estimated by using nonlinear least squares method and the marking number of the tank-volume meter is given.

Keywords

Optimization Model; Oil Tank Tilt; Oil-Volume Marking Problem; Least Squares Method; Parameter Estimation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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