NONTRADITIONAL OPTIMIZATION FOR ISOM UNIT IMPROVES PROFITS

A real-time, closed-loop optimization of the Penex process for light-naphtha isomerization was implemented at Bayernoil's (formerly Raffineriegesellschaft Vohburg/Ingolstadt GmbH) Ingolstadt, Germany, refinery in July 1996. Bayernoil is a joint venture of British Petroleum Co. plc, Mobil Oil Corp., Ruhr Ol GmbH, and Agip Petroli SpA. This article is an excerpt from a paper that describes techniques to optimize a multiunit naphtha complex on-line using steady state models. The naphtha complex includes naphtha hydrotreating, naphtha splitting, isomerization, and reforming in a typical refinery. These units rarely achieve steady state simultaneously.

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• Authors:
  • Besl, H
  • Kossman, W
  • Crowe, T J
  • Caracotsios, M
• Publication Date: 1998-5-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 61-64
• Serial:
  • Oil and Gas Journal
  • Volume: 96
  • Issue Number: 19
  • Publisher: PennWell Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 0030-1388

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feedback control; Loops (Control systems); Naphtha; Optimization; Petroleum refineries; Steady state
• Old TRIS Terms: Steady-state conditions
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00749047
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 22 1998 12:00AM