ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,779, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD. (Maharashtra, India).
"System and method for dynamic optimization of a crude distillation unit" was invented by Mathew John (Maharashtra, India), Rajeev Kumar (Maharashtra, India) and Ravi Kumar Voolapalli (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and method for real-time dynamic optimization of crude distillation unit (CDU). The present invention makes use of a combination of CDU and plant data such as crude density, flow, temperature profile and pressure profile of column, other operating conditions, and colu...