Refinery operations planning

Ravi, V. and Reddy, P.J. (1998) Fuzzy linear fractional goal programming applied to refinery operations planning. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 96, 173. 

Refinery operations planning (Shah, 1996 Lee etal, 1996 Zhang etal, 2001 Pinto etal., 2000 Wenkai etal, 2002 Julka etal, 2002b Jia etal, 2003 Joly and Pinto, 2003 Reddy etal, 2004 Lababidi etal, 2004 Moro and Pinto, 2004). 

This problem is extensively studied for refinery operations planning leading to non-linear process models, see Zhang et al. (2001), Li et al. (2005), or Alhajri et al. (2008). 

The corporate operations planning model sets target levels and prices for interrefinery transfers, crude and product allocations to each refinery, production targets, and inventory targets for the end of each refinery model s time horizon. 

In plant operations planning each refinery model produces target operating conditions, stream allocations, and blends across the whole refinery, which determines (a) optimal operating conditions, flows, blend recipes, and inventories and (b) costs, cost limits, and marginal values to the scheduling and real-time optimization (RTO) models. 

All in all, the petroleum industry has invested considerable effort in developing sophisticated mathematical programming models to help planners provide overall planning schemes for refinery operations, crude oil evaluation, and other related tasks. 

This example illustrates the planning of petroleum refinery operations as an ordinary single objective linear programming (LP) problem of total daily profit maximization. 

Pinto, J.M., Joly, M and Moro, L.F.L. (2000) Planning and scheduling models for refinery operations. Computers el Chemical Engineering, 24, 2259. 

Ms. Nawal A. A1 Badou Lead Operational Planning Engineer Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) Mina Abdulla Refinery P.O.Box 69 13001 Salat, Kuwait... 

Refining companies are successfully implementing supply chain integrated solutions to solve these problems and improve refinery operation and profitability. However, these applications depend on the availability of accurate and live data. Some points of the supply chain— in particular planning and operation areas—are greatly influenced by the availability of reliable and updated crude oil libraries reflecting the information of the crude oil and the products that will be obtained in the different processes. 

Most refineries develop iadividual octane blending equations which do a good job of predicting that refinery s blending behavior. In order to use these equations ia refinery planning and operations, these may be linearized ia a piecewise fashion. 

DHDS [Diesel deep hydrodesulfurization] A petroleum refining process developed by the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (IMP) with plans for it to be in operation at the Pemex refinery at Cadereyka, Mexico, in 1999. 

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