Symphonite BLEND

Symphonite BLEND is a flexible platform that helps users 

• Develop models uniquely representative of refinery’s blending operations.

• Build optimized recipes taking into account component availability, cost and quality, tank constraints, blender constraints, pumping constraints, recipe constraints, product demand and prices, product delivery schedule, linear and non-linear blending correlations, including blending bonuses, etc.

• Perform all of the calculations required to meet specific product specifications and delivery of a basic scheduled campaign.

• Maximizes profitability and frees users from performing these time-consuming calculations and evaluations of alternatives, including component buy and sell decisions.

• Combining multi-product, multi-period LP & MIP with scheduling algorithms to produce an optimum set of blending orders that meet specifications, reduce giveaway, and honor tank inventory and pumping constraints.

• Supports three commercial nonlinear blending methods - Ethyl Corporation’s RT-205 equation, ExxonMobil Corporation’s transformation method and DuPont’s interaction coefficient method.

• Intuitive user interface allows users to easily build and modify models. Easily update model input data and model solution data.

• Collection of actual blend information from on-line blend control system, and utilizes the on-line analyzer data, coupled with regression techniques, to update the linear blending bonuses in BLEND to accurately predict blend property.  

• Generate blend orders for online blend control system.

Additional features include:

• Summary and results reporting.

• Specification and target blending.

• Reformulated gasoline blending.

• Dynamic Gantt chart for blend schedule adjustments.

• Integration with laboratory and tank gauging system, and online blend control software via import/ export facilities.​

• Graphical Visualization of the tank quantities based on schedule.  

• Blend Trim Calculator for final recipes tuning.

Symphonite BLEND:

• Generates a feasible and optimal recipe for each blend for a short-term or long-term campaign

• Improves overall refinery profitability by optimum use of component inventory, reduced quality giveaway, better product mix while meeting the product specifications and demand

• Let’s refiners take advantage of immediate market opportunities while still adhering to their operating plan and physical constraints

• Addresses product specification requirements for environmental compliance.