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| 20080257413 | System, Program Product, and Related Methods for Global Targeting of Process Utilities Under Varying Conditions - Systems, program product, and methods to estimate and manage flowing fluid characteristics of a fluid stream flowing through a pipeline in real-time, are provided. A system can include a vertically oriented extent of a pipeline for transporting crude oil, a pair of spaced vertically apart sensors or sensor assemblies connected to a bypass line interfaced with or positioned across the vertically oriented extent of the pipeline to obtain pressure and temperature readings of the crude oil flowing through the pipeline, a controller in communication with the pair of sensors or sensor assemblies, and crude oil analysis and management program product stored in the memory of the controller and adapted to determine or estimate density, specific gravity, and API gravity of the crude oil to thereby manage flowing fluid characteristics of the crude oil. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100030547 | SYSTEM, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RELATED METHODS FOR GLOBAL TARGETING OF PROCESS UTILITIES UNDER VARYING CONDITIONS - Systems, program product, and methods to optimize energy management for a site including a combined steam heat and electrical power system, is provided. A system, for example, can include a computer including memory, and energy utility modeling program product stored in the memory. The system can rigorously target, without manual iteration, for multiple utility commodity targets to include their global minimum and maximum requirements or capabilities, individually, or subject to other target objectives, due to varying process conditions. The system can also obtain the supply and demand best and worst case scenarios due to varying process conditions for a given process or cluster of processes. The system can also provide such data subject to other supply and demand objectives, and can further provide a range of commodity requirements or capabilities subject to user selected values for other commodity requirements or capabilities. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100070258 | System, Method, and Program Product for Targeting and Identification of Optimal Process Variables in Constrained Energy Recovery Systems - Systems, methods, and program product to calculate global energy utility targets and to model and determine an optimal solution for a non-thermodynamically constrained process or cluster of processes subject to non-thermodynamic constraints under all possible process changes and streams specific minimum temperature approaches, are provided. An exemplary system can utilize thermodynamic constraints exhibited in stream-specific minimum temperature approach values ΔT | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100223198 | System, Method and Program Product for Targeting and Optimal Driving Force Distribution in Energy Recovery Systems - A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery or a process or cluster of processes under all possible process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The program product can utilize stream-specific minimum temperature approach values ΔT | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110046997 | Systems, Program Product, and Methods For Synthesizing Heat Exchanger Networks That Exhibit Life-Cycle Switchability and Flexibility Under All Possible Combinations of Process Variations - A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps/operations to synthesize multiple heat exchanger network designs according to different process variations schemes, analyze the impact of process variations on each heat exchanger network, and identify which design provides a more optimal heat exchanger network design and which process variation scheme represents a more optimal flexibility index. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110046998 | Systems, Program Product, and Methods For Targeting Optimal Process Conditions That Render An Optimal Heat Exchanger Network Design Under Varying Conditions - A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps/operations to identify an optimal set of discrete target temperature values for the process streams for a given heat exchanger network design, to identify which target temperature values of the various process streams have the most significant economic impact on the process or cluster of processes, and to identify process stream supply attribute ranges of variations, e.g., in the form of a criticality list for the plurality of process streams, e.g., resulting from disturbances and/or uncertainty, which have a highly significant or otherwise critical effect on streams target temperature. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110054715 | Systems, Program Product, and Methods For Synthesizing Heat Exchanger Networks That Account For Future Higher Levels of Disturbances and Uncertainty, and Identifying Optimal Topology For Future Retrofit - A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps/operations to identify a set of common-structure heat exchanger network designs which allow for construction of a physically exchanger network easily retrofittable to accommodate time-dependent new operating modes, disturbances, and uncertainty schemes. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110087380 | System, Method, and Program Product For Synthesizing Non-Thermodynamically Constrained Heat Exchanger Networks - Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for non-thermodynamically constrained problems for a plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams to be heated according to a plurality of utilities targets, are provided. An exemplary system includes a heat exchange network synthesizing computer and heat exchange network synthesizing program product configured to analyze the waste heat recovery problem without decomposition to produce a result having an optimal number of network heat exchanger units through application of advanced process-to-process matching schemes for non-thermodynamically constrained problems. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087475 | System, Method, and Program Product For Synthesizing Non-Constrained and Constrained Heat Exchanger Networks - Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for a plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams to be heated according to a plurality of utilities targets, are provided. An exemplary system includes a heat exchange network synthesizing computer and heat exchange network synthesizing program product configured to analyze the waste heat recovery problem without decomposition to produce a result having an optimal number of network heat exchanger units through application of advanced process-to-process matching schemes for both non-constrained and non-thermodynamically constrained problems. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110106504 | System, Method, and Program Product For Synthesizing Heat Exchanger Networks and Identifying Optimal Topology for Future Retrofit - Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for hot process streams to be cooled and cold process streams to be heated and to identify optimal topology for future retrofit, are provided. An exemplary system includes a heat exchange network synthesizing computer and heat exchange network synthesizing program product configured to analyze the waste heat recovery problem, without decomposition, to produce a result having a better number of heat exchanger units and/or better waste heat recovery through application of advanced process-to-process matching schemes for both non-constrained and non-thermodynamically constrained problems. The heat exchange network synthesizing program product is also configured to produce alternative optimal heat exchanger network designs which account for variations in energy and capital costs to allow for construction of a physical heat exchanger network configured during its initial construction or deployment to be “easily-retrofitable” in future times according to a continuum of possible energy-capital cost scenarios. | 05-05-2011 |
