METHOD TO CONTROL A LUBRICANT PRODUCTION

• Main Authors: HEANEY, WILLIAM FRANCIS, VISWESWARAN, VISWANATHAN, GLEESON, JAMES WILLIAM, SANCHEZ, EUGENIO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 26.01.2010
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; CHECKING-DEVICES; CHEMISTRY; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; FUELS; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS C10M RELATING TO LUBRICATINGCOMPOSITIONS; LUBRICANTS; LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS; METALLURGY; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; REGULATING; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATINGINGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

A compositional model (801) is run on a computer or processor (803) having attached memory (805). The processor (803) may be PC-based or main frame-based and the memory (805) may be RAM, ROM or any appropriate storage device. The compositional model (801) typically receives as input data representing base stock(s) (807) (in a blending case), or data representing crude(s) (809) (in the blending case). The compositional model (801) may also receive as input data representing the refining data (810) of the particular crude(s) (809).In the case of crude(s) (809), such compositional model (801) parameters may be predicted from a library of industry data which is also stored in the memory (805). Once presented with such data, the compositional model (801) predicts whether the inputted base stock(s) (807) or crude(s) (809) are acceptable and provides an appropriate output (811).