The Calculator
Meet Refinery Calc: We are Your comprehensive source for upstream, downstream refining, midstream, petrochemical, industrial gases, power, natural gas, and energy global intelligence.
At REFINERY CALCULATOR, we equip our end users with an innovative, user-friendly, cloud based refining optimization engine technology that is integrated with live fed data. This provides our users with Signals, Insights and Answers to some of the world’s toughest energy problems.
Our unique offering is underpinned by our state-of-the-art, proprietary techno-economic refinery optimization engine mode technology.
The REFINERY CALCULATOR model has proprietary process yield correlations and configurations for nearly every complex refinery in the world. For the upgrader and specialty refineries our clients can provide us with an order for a custom simulation and we will use our offline version of the tool to provide the same value added services.
The REFINERY CALCULATOR team has worked earnestly to simplify our highly sophisticated software package and equip users with the ability to use the tool with very little training.
Process Overview
Inputs
Simulate
Simply hit the Run Refineries button to begin the process simulation. On average each refinery run takes less than 2 minutes. The time of the simulation varies based on the number of refineries selected, the types of crudes and any modifications to the configurations.
Outputs
Features
Capacities
Refinery configurations and unit capacities are generated from the EIA, market intelligence and other databases.
Prices
Refinery prices for all crudes, other feeds, other blend stocks, products, and utilities are updated regularly from public sources; user has the ability to over-ride standard prices and insert their own prices.
Crudes
Crude assays are updated regularly and are easily customizable.Crude assays are updated regularly and are easily customizable.
Specifications
Property specifications for gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, bunker fuel, heavy fuel oil and other products are contained within the Refinery Calculator model
Other Unique Features of the Refinery Calculator include:
- Several Databases of Worldwide Refinery Process Unit Capacities and Configurations are updated yearly
- Crude Oil Assays are updated frequently and our library is constantly expanding
- Optimized Process Stream Routings
- Fully Functional Cut-Point Adjustments that are Customizable
- Process Unit Property and Yield Correlations For Each Process Unit
- Process Unit Operating Conditions that are Fully Customizable
- Properties of other Feedstocks and Blend Stocks
- Full Bottom’s Up Energy and Mass Balance and Adjustments
- Solutions are “Grounded” in Operational Reality with Minimum Turn Downs Limitations Included
- Complete Hydrogen Balance for the Refinery including required outside hydrogen purchases
- Utility Consumptions for Each Process Unit and Minor Equipment (i.e. pumps, compressors, furnaces)
- Power
- Natural Gas
- Water
- Steam
- Hydrogen
Model Functionality
- Crude oil slates are analyzed and then optimized for a refinery’s configuration
- Process streams and distributions are directed to various process units based on a proprietary optimization algorithmProcess streams and distributions are directed to various process units based on a proprietary optimization algorithm
- Material and Mass Balance: The Refinery Calculator measures the mass, volume, and properties of the individual streams iteratively such that near perfect weight balances are achieved with every simulation run
- Finished Product Blending: Blend stock purchases and intermediate sales are used to provide the necessary degrees of freedom to meet user-defined product specifications for light naphtha, and heavy naphtha, regular gasoline, premium gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, kerosene, gas oil, ultra low sulfur fuel oil, and high sulfur heavy fuel oil.
- Refinery Margin Optimization Calculation: An optimized solution is generated by solving a profit maximum objective function by performing thousands of simulations in mere seconds using the Refinery Calculator’s proprietary optimization engine
- Process Unit Properties and Yield Calculations: The Refinery Calculator predicts yields and properties of the major refining process units and some petrochemical units based on the following routine:
- specific stream properties and unit arrangements.
- cut point adjustments (user defined/adjusted or standard assumptions)
- proprietary yield correlations (or user defined/adjusted)
- using standard unit operating conditions or the user can bias them.
- adjusting advanced operating conditions such as reformer severity, FCC conversion, hydrocracker conversion, sour diesel production, and advanced intermediate and bottoms handling
Crude Assays
Crude Units
- Vacuum distillation
- Alkylates
- Aromatics
- Asphalt & road oil
- Cat cracking: fresh feed
- Cat cracking: recycled feed
- Cat hydrocracking, distillate
- Cat hydrocracking, gas oil
- Cat hydrocracking, residual
- Cat reforming: high pressure
- Cat reforming: low pressure
- Desulfurization, diesel fuel
- Desulfurization, gasoline
- Desulfurization, heavy gas oil
- Desulfurization, kerosene and jet
- Desulfurization, naphtha/reformer
- Desulfurization, other
- Desulfurization, other distillate
- Desulfurization, residual
- Fuels solvent deasphalting
- Hydrogen plant and psa (mmcfd)
- Isomerization (isobutane)
- Isomerization (isopentane/isohexane)
- Lubricants
- Operating capacity
- Petcoke,market
- Sulfur (short tons/day)
- Therm cracking, delayed coking
- Therm cracking, fluid coking
- Therm cracking, other (incldng gas oil)
- Therm cracking, visbreaking
Web Based Report
Detailed Report
Use Cases
Evaluate "What If" Scenarios
Compare various refineries against each other, increase or decrease unit capacities, or even shutdown particular processing units to determine “what would happen”
Automate Optimization
Each time the user returns they can start exactly where they left off to simply and expedite the simulation.
Express Reporting
Create your own report or allow a member of the Refinery Calc team to generate a custom report for you and email it to yourself at some pre-set frequency.
Custom Refineries in Minutes
Don’t see a refinery that we have listed in our refinery database – simple, no problem. Select the Custom Refinery from the dropdown list or modify a pre-existing refinery by changing the bias (either upward or downward)
Modify the Inputs
Change crude pricing, ‘cut-points’, product pricing or any configuration that suits your needs.
Premium Users
Can request help on a refinery simulation any time M-F during normal business hours. Also Premium Users get first access to new product releases and beta editions of new features
Modern Design
Enjoy the layout and sleek features of the Refinery Calculator
Custom Solutions
No job is too large or small for the Refinery Calc team. Consider us your partner in helping you generate custom reports or data packages for refineries that may include specifics about, energy, industrial gases, chemicals, carbon emissions, green hydrogen, crude pricing, product yields, refinery margins, feasibility studies, refinery expansions or any other type of question you can come up with. We are here to support your needs
Unlimited Support
Five days a week M-F during normal business hours. Also, feel free to send us an email at support@refinerycalculator.com
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