{"id":182848,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/petroleum-refining-processes"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:10:12","slug":"petroleum-refining-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/petroleum-refining-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum Refining Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A petroleum refinery manufactures three types of gasoline(1) Super, (2) Premium and (3) Regular.<\/p>\n<p>Each type of gasoline is produced by blending of gasoline produced from distillation ofthreetypesofcrudeoil(crude1,crude2andcrude3).<\/p>\n<p>The salespriceperbarrelofgasolineandthepurchasepriceperbarrelof crudeoilaregivenbelow:<\/p>\n<p><u>Gasoline Salepriceperbarrel<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Super$70<\/li>\n<li>Premium$60<\/li>\n<li>Regular $50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Crude oilPurchasePriceperbarrel<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Crude1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $45<\/p>\n<p>Crude2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $25<\/p>\n<p>Crude3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $20<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company canpurchaseupto5000barrelsofeachtypeofcrudeoildaily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The threetypesofgasolinedifferintheiroctaneratingandsulfur content.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The gasoline from crudeoilblended toform Super gasoline musthaveanaverageoctaneNoof atleast90andcontainatmost1%<\/li>\n<li>Thegasoline from crude oilblendedtoformPremium gasoline musthaveanaverageoctaneNoofatleast89andcontain atmost2%sulfur.<\/li>\n<li>The gasolinefrom crude oil blendedtoformRegular gasolinemusthaveanoctaneNoofatleast87 andcontainatmost1%sulfur.<\/li>\n<li>The octaneNo andthesulfur contentof gasolineobtained fromthreetypesofcrude oil aregivenbelow:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Crude oilOctane NO.Sulfur content<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Crude 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 92&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.5 %<\/p>\n<p>Crude 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 86&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.0 %<\/p>\n<p>Crude 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 90&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.0 %<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Itcosts$4totransformonebarrelof oilintoonebarrelofgasolineusing distillation,<\/li>\n<li>The companycan produceupto14,000barrelsofgasolinedaily.<\/li>\n<li>The company\u2019scustomersrequirethefollowingamountsofeachgasoline:<\/li>\n<li>Super :3000bbl\/d<\/li>\n<li>Premium :2000 bbl\/d<\/li>\n<li>Regular :1000bbl\/d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thecompanyconsidersitanobligationtomeet thesedemands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Required:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Formulatethe linear programing problem thatwillmaximize<\/li>\n<li>Solve the problem to determine the barrelsused from each crude to make each gasoline type per day and the daily profit.<\/li>\n<li>Show using graph the effect of the following on the daily profits.<\/li>\n<li>The selling price of the 3 types of gasoline<\/li>\n<li>The purchasing price of the 3 types of crude oil.<\/li>\n<li>The maximum allowable sulfur content of Regular gasoline.<\/li>\n<li>The minimum required ON of Regular gasoline.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petroleum refinery manufactures three types of gasoline(1) Super, (2) Premium and (3) Regular. Each type of gasoline is produced by blending of gasoline produced from distillation ofthreetypesofcrudeoil(crude1,crude2andcrude3). The salespriceperbarrelofgasolineandthepurchasepriceperbarrelof crudeoilaregivenbelow: Gasoline Salepriceperbarrel Super$70 Premium$60 Regular $50 Crude oilPurchasePriceperbarrel Crude1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/petroleum-refining-processes\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}