Method and system for operating a hydrocarbon production facility

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A computerized system and method for operating a hydrocarbon or chemical production facility, comprising mathematically modeling the facility; optimizing the mathematic model with a combination of linear and non-linear solvers; and generating one or more product recipes based upon the optimized solution. In an embodiment, mathematic model further comprises a plurality of process equations having process variables and corresponding coefficients and , preferably wherein the process variables and corresponding coefficients are used to create a matrix in a linear program. The linear program may be executed via recursion or distributed recursion. Upon successive recursion passes, updated …