SIMTO^® M-Blend for Gasoline Blending

(Applies to all fuel blending such as jet and diesel)

• Minimizing cost and quality giveaway of multiple blends over multiple periods in the schedule horizon, while honoring constraints in specifications, materials, logistics, and shipments.
• Providing standard and customable blending library such as RFG, CARB, and Distillate and solving nonlinear blending optimization problem.
• Avoiding the problem of optimizing a single blend at the risk of inventory shortage, shipment delay, and even loss of sale for subsequent blend products.
• Managing inventory economically by accurately predicting demands of blend stocks. Inventory control is important when the availability of qualified blend stocks decreases with stringent regulated properties such as sulfur, NOx, and VOC.
• Predicting blend properties accurately with versatile blending methods including linear blending, bonuses, formulas, interactions, and dynamic libraries. The interaction and library blending methods can handle complex correlations in calculating gasoline properties such as RON, MON, NOx, and VOC.
• Increasing market flexibility with the ability to blend stocks outside experience and to adapt quickly to changes in inventory and product requirements.
• Transitioning efficiently from grade to grade, season to season, and even area to area. For example, the multi-blend, multi-period optimization balances between blend down and draw down for the transition from winter fuel to summer fuel.
• Managing product specifications and blending methods through a blend knowledge base.
• Tracking material usage and regulated properties to comply with regulations such as anti-dumping and environmental protection laws.