• DocumentCode
    1315263
  • Title

    Crude unit control and optimisation at Grangemouth Refinery

  • Author

    Jones, Allan ; Donnell, Manus O. ; Terndrup, Henrik

  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1999
  • Firstpage
    209
  • Lastpage
    213
  • Abstract
    BP Oil Grangemouth Refinery has installed a distributed quadratic program (DQP) multi-unit online optimiser across its three atmospheric crude distillation units and the splitter columns of the two distillate hydrotreaters. The main objective of the DQP application is to enhance the optimisation capabilities of the five existing MVPC controllers by taking account of product pool property constraints and blending economics. This article outlines its design and implementation.
  • Keywords
    British Petroleum; BP Oil Grangemouth Refinery; atmospheric crude distillation units; controllers; crude unit control; crude unit optimisation; distillate hydrotreaters; distributed quadratic program multi-unit online optimiser; product pool blending economics; product pool property constraints; splitter columns;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing & Control Engineering Journal
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0956-3385
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/cce:19990503
  • Filename
    828595