LP for a Petroleum Refinery

An LP model for a petroleum refinery would consist of a number of modules for the different units (e.g., FCC, hydrocracker, fluid delayed coker, etc.). Each of these 

The material balance equations for the FCC unit are easily expressed in terms of the yield equations presented earlier. If F represents the total inlet feed (barrels per day, BPD) to the FCC unit and Y, is the yield of product i as read from Tables 2.3 and 2.4, then the production of product i can be simply obtained by multiplying the feed to the unit by the yield of product i (i.e., FY ). Such material balance equations must be written for all units of a refinery in order to prepare a mathematical 

Data point Feed K LV% Feed API Feed S Actual gasoline Gasoline predicted (Gary) Error% Gasoline predicted (Jones) Error% Gasoline predicted (Maple) Error% Gasoline predicted (this work) Error% 

4 Regression-Based Planning Example of the Fluid Catalytic Cracker 33 

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