Rigorous mechanistic models of refining processes are often too complex, which results in long modeling times, low model computational efficiencies, and poor convergence, limiting the application of mechanistic-model-based process optimization and…
Big data refers to store, manage, analyze, and process efficiently a huge amount of datasets and to distribute it. Recent advancements in big data technologies include data recording, storage, and processing, and now big data is used in the refinery…
Rigorous mechanistic models of refining processes are often too complex, which results in long modeling times, low model computational efficiencies, and poor convergence, limiting the application of mechanistic-model-based process optimization and…
Big data refers to store, manage, analyze, and process efficiently a huge amount of datasets and to distribute it. Recent advancements in big data technologies include data recording, storage, and processing, and now big data is used in the refinery…
Rigorous mechanistic models of refining processes are often too complex, which results in long modeling times, low model computational efficiencies, and poor convergence, limiting the application of mechanistic-model-based process optimization and…
Big data refers to store, manage, analyze, and process efficiently a huge amount of datasets and to distribute it. Recent advancements in big data technologies include data recording, storage, and processing, and now big data is used in the refinery…
Rigorous mechanistic models of refining processes are often too complex, which results in long modeling times, low model computational efficiencies, and poor convergence, limiting the application of mechanistic-model-based process optimization and…
Big data refers to store, manage, analyze, and process efficiently a huge amount of datasets and to distribute it. Recent advancements in big data technologies include data recording, storage, and processing, and now big data is used in the refinery…
Rigorous mechanistic models of refining processes are often too complex, which results in long modeling times, low model computational efficiencies, and poor convergence, limiting the application of mechanistic-model-based process optimization and…
Big data refers to store, manage, analyze, and process efficiently a huge amount of datasets and to distribute it. Recent advancements in big data technologies include data recording, storage, and processing, and now big data is used in the refinery…
The oil-and-gas industry is Russia's top source of budget income. This industry is moving towards more pronounced use of IT in order to minimize oil production and refining costs. Notably, any major oil refinery prioritizes not only the final-product…
At present, the big data industry is developing rapidly in many fields around the world, and it brings opportunities for the transformation and upgradation of the traditional oil industry. The whole oil business chain is of large scale, and there are…
In a petroleum refining plant, the high-pressure gas leaks resulting from equipment failures may lead to disasters. To minimize these disasters, technology for the early detection of leak sound is indispensable. We have employed chaos theory to…
The current pricing climate for natural gas and liquid transportation fuels adds a significant amount of uncertainty when designing new natural gas to liquid transportation fuel (GTL) refineries. Robust optimization is a useful tool for optimization…
This study addresses the scheduling of an oil derivatives transportation system by a multiproduct pipeline that connects a single refinery to a distribution center (DC) and that meets the customer demands on a daily basis by considering integrated…
In some refineries, storage tanks are located at two different sites, one for low-fusion-point crude oil and the other for high one. Two pipelines are used to transport different oil types. Due to the constraints resulting from the high-fusion-point…
The work is considering of technology of Crude distillation unit in general modern technology of refining process. Crude distillation unit (CDU) is at the front-end of the oil refinery. Oil topping column K-1 is especially important in the general…
Sixteen petroleum crudes and an imported atmospheric residue originating from Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the USA have been processed in the LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas (LNB) refinery, and their effect…
The use of asphaltene stabilizers, also referred to as crude stabilizers, is a valuable chemical tool available to the refiner to successfully process unstable or incompatible crude oil blends in crude oil desalters. The increasing interest in crude…
Crude oil fractionating column is an important unit in the refining processes of petrol production. The quality of gasoline from the fractionating column side stream is usually evaluated by dry point that is difficult to measure in real-time. In this…
Crude oil sludge is one of the key waste streams of the refinery, and it contains valuable hydrocarbons that can be potentially converted to fuels and petrochemicals. This study is unique in evaluating the effects of activated carbon susceptor (ACS)…
Crude oils produced from different reservoirs in the world have very different chemical compositions and physicochemical properties. Naphthenic acids and sulphur content can affect the properties and impact the processing and refining of oils.…
Crude oil blending is an important unit in petroleum refining industry. Most of blend automation system is a real-time optimizer (RTO). RTO is a model-based optimization approach that uses current process information to update the model and predict…
Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units in oil refineries are prime candidates for implementation of advanced control functions for both operational and economic reasons. This paper discusses an actual advanced control implementation project on a commercial…
In discrete manufacturing, just in time schedule is pursued so as to better respond to the market. In the practice, it is also required to do so in oil refinery. However, the existing scheduling techniques for finding short-term scheduling in oil…
The research performed in this work are aimed at the optimization of technological mode to increase the yield of light fractions (gasoline and diesel) in the catalytic cracking of vacuum distillate taking into account feedstock composition. The…
Operations in process industry are characterized by hybrid system, so it is difficult to model and analyze. Recently there is a great interest in modeling and analysis of process industry. Various models are proposed for batch process. In refinery,…
The feasibility of a schedule is essential to the operation of a complex system involving both discrete and continuous processes. This paper studies the short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations in a control theory perspective. A…
Crude oil fractionating column is an important unit in the refining processes of petrol production. The quality of gasoline from the fractionating column side stream is usually evaluated by dry point that is difficult to measure in real-time. In this…
In the field of transportation of petroleum and its products by pipe line, the 24-inch and 20-inch lines, built by War Emergency Pipelines, Inc., from Texas to the Middle Atlantic Coast as emergency war projects, rank as world record breakers. The…
For short-term scheduling of crude oil operations in a refinery, charging tanks are a type of critical resources. If the number of charging tanks is insufficient, the scheduling problem is further complicated. In this case, to make a refinery operate…
With both discrete-event and continuous variables, the process of crude oil operations in a refinery is characterized as a hybrid system. The scheduling problem of crude oil operations is naturally combinatorial and challenging. Moreover, with oil…
With the hybrid characteristics of a refinery, it is very challenging to schedule crude oil operations. This work intends to solve this scheduling problem by decomposing it into two sub-problems hierarchically. At the upper level, a refining schedule…
For the short-term scheduling problem of crude oil operations, this paper studies the detailed scheduling problem to realize a given refining schedule. The problem is formulated as an integer programming model by using discrete-time representation.…
In discrete manufacturing, a just-in-time schedule is pursued so as to respond better to the market. It is also required in oil refinery. However, the existing techniques for short-term scheduling in oil refinery are based on the push production…
Operations in process industry are characterized by hybrid system, so it is difficult to model and analyze. Recently there is a great interest in modeling and analysis of process industry. Various models are proposed for batch process. In refinery,…
Because of the complexity of a short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations, some constraints are ignored in modeling the system by the existing approaches, leading to an infeasible solution. To avoid this, the short-term scheduling problem…
In-site permeability test was carried out in order to find the permeability coefficient in the ground of the 7 companies (Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Oil Exploration Operations Company, Commercial Storage, Iranol Company, Distribution…
The Northern Tier Pipeline Company proposes to locate a major crude oil transfer facility along the Strait of Juan de Fuca at or west of Port Angeles, Washington. The facility would receive tankers carrying primarily Alaska North Slope crude oil and…
The feasibility of a schedule is essential to the operation of a complex system involving both discrete and continuous processes. This paper studies the short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations in a control theory perspective. A…
A short-term schedule for oil refinery should arrange all the activities in every detail for the whole scheduling horizon, leading to a complex problem. There lacks efficient techniques and software tools for its solution applicable to industrial oil…
In recent years, the oil market has witnessed high volatility due to unstable demand and supply. Considering the price volatility and stricter environmental regulations, there is a possibility of a decline in the demand for transportation fuels,…
The occurrence of 3-monochloro-1,2-propanediol-fatty acid esters in edible oils has been described for the first time in 2006 by Zelinkova et al. In 2007 the official laboratory of Stuttgart and the Max Rubner-Institut in Germany announced findings…
In keeping with emerging consumer trends, the food industry is continually searching for cheaper and sustainable resources for the production of oils as food ingredients. Corn (maize) is the leading crop all over the world and is consumed as a staple…
In recent years, the oil market has witnessed high volatility due to unstable demand and supply. Considering the price volatility and stricter environmental regulations, there is a possibility of a decline in the demand for transportation fuels,…
In the eon of industrialization, the scrutiny of natural resources has apportioned as a rising root in analyzing advanced science and technologies to produce materials like surfactants in an accumulated manner receiving great deals in the…
Crude oil sludge is one of the key waste streams of the refinery, and it contains valuable hydrocarbons that can be potentially converted to fuels and petrochemicals. This study is unique in evaluating the effects of activated carbon susceptor (ACS)…
The occurrence of 3-monochloro-1,2-propanediol-fatty acid esters in edible oils has been described for the first time in 2006 by Zelinkova et al. In 2007 the official laboratory of Stuttgart and the Max Rubner-Institut in Germany announced findings…
In recent years, the oil market has witnessed high volatility due to unstable demand and supply. Considering the price volatility and stricter environmental regulations, there is a possibility of a decline in the demand for transportation fuels,…