AM-04-18 The Tradeoff between Gasoline Pool Availability and Capital Expenditures in a Complex Modern Day Refinery

Description:

This article will detail an analysis process that will enable an engineer to determine production bottlenecks from an availability/reliability standpoint. It will help answer the question of how a given amount of capital could be optimally spent to increase availability. In essence, where should I spend my next dollar to increase longterm throughput? This analysis process is a different viewpoint than traditional throughput analyses undertaken when process engineers are performing debottlenecking studies and usually follows after those studies have been completed.