Abstract: Production scheduling of refinery processes is researched in view of continuous process characteristics.A Generalized Disjunctive Programming（GDP） scheduling model is set up based on given definitions of continuity，chronicity and their synthesis performance criterion which evaluates the continuous process characteristics quantitatively.The model describes the continuity during different scheduling periods using disjunctive normal form and logic proposition，and optimizes the trade-off between production profit and continuous process characteristics performance.The proposed formulation is used to address scheduling of a certain refinery.Numerical results obtained from the scheduling considering continuous process characteristics whether or not show that schedule of the continuous process characteristics-based scheduling model can improve the performance of continuous process characteristics and is more feasible and practical，which illustrates the model’s effectiveness.