PETROLEUM REFINERY OPERATIONS SCHEDULING. CHAPTER V. A GASOLINE BLENDING PROBLEM

Abstract

The selection of an optimal gasoline blending schedule is presented. Assuming fixed availabilities of raw blending materials and of fixed realizations upon finished products, the Union Oil Company's gasoline blending operations were formulated in terms of a constrainedmaximum problem. The outstanding result of the numerical analysis was that it would be worth several millions of dollars per annum if the company were able tto shift sales so as to sell additional quantities of premium grade gasoline.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1954
Accession Number
AD0604302

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  • Alan S. Manne

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Counter IED

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  • Blending
  • California
  • Chemistry
  • Computations
  • Equations
  • Fuel Oils
  • Fuels
  • Gasoline
  • Geography
  • Interpolation
  • Machines
  • Materials
  • Mixtures
  • New York
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Petroleum
  • United States

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