Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Anantha Sundaram

Philip H Warrick

Gary Robert Kocis

Joseph W Evans

Jayanth Balasubramanian

Victor P DePaola

Nicholas J Booker

George E Friedrich

Eric A Winkler

Stephen R Bradshaw

James M Brown

Clinton R Kennedy

Roland Bernard Saeger

Helen S Wellons

Stephen B Jaffe

Ahmet B Keha

Roland B Saeger

A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform operational programming of the facility so that the analysis of specific operational events is flexible and 'on-demand.' This is achieved by allowing the user to set scope and timeframe of the analysis according to business needs. As a result, the organization can make better-informed judgments whether to add operational activities and how to adjust the ones already formulated in the program. The decision support tool can also allow for the application of strategies to communicate intent behind the programming instructions and to improve the quality of business decisions.

Operational programming of a facility

A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform planning and scheduling of the events within a facility so that established economic goals do not collide with feasibility of a schedule. This is achieved by flexible time modeling, which introduces a 'look-ahead' planning and scheduling technique. This technique analyzes several time periods of the schedule in light of upcoming dominant events, in order for each segment of the schedule to remain as consistent with the planning objectives as possible.

Flexible time modeling of a facility

A method for determining the composition of a material including the steps of fitting multivariate analytical data of the material to a combination of multivariate analytical data in a database to determine coefficients of the combination so as to determine a reference model of composition based on the coefficients and the compositions in the database, wherein the database includes multivariate analytical data of database materials whose compositions are known, and reconciling the reference model of composition to match properties of the material.

Estimating detailed compositional information from limited analytical data

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