Patent ID: 11905468
Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC C  B  G | IPC B  C  G

Claim 24:
25. The FCC control assembly of claim 21, wherein the controlling comprises operating an analytical cracking model configured to improve an accuracy of one or more of:
(i) predicting the content of the hydrocarbon feedstock supplied to the one or more first processing units,
(ii) predicting the content of the intermediate materials produced by the one or more first processing units,
(iii) controlling the content of the hydrocarbon feedstock supplied to the one or more first processing units,
(iv) controlling the content of the intermediate materials produced by the one or more first processing units,
(v) controlling the content of the FCC effluent produced by the one or more first processing units;
(vi) the target content of the unit product materials produced by one or more of the first processing units, or
(vii) the target content of the downstream materials produced by one or more of the second processing units, and
wherein the analytical cracking model comprises a machine-learning-trained model, and the FCC process controller is configured to:
(i) provide, to the analytical cracking model, catalytic cracking processing data related to one or more of:
(a) material data comprising one or more of:
feedstock data indicative of one or more hydrocarbon feedstock properties associated with the hydrocarbon feedstock,
unit material data indicative of one or more unit material properties associated with the one or more unit materials, or
downstream material data indicative of one or more downstream material properties associated with one or more downstream materials produced by the one or more second processing units, or

(b) processing assembly data comprising one or more of:
first processing unit data indicative of one or more operating parameters associated with operation of the one or more first processing units,
second processing unit data indicative of one or more operating parameters associated with operation of the one or more second processing units, or
conditioning assembly data indicative of operation of a sample conditioning assembly configured to one or more of control a sample temperature of a material sample, remove particulates from the material sample, dilute the material sample in solvent, or degas the material sample, and

(ii) control, based at least in part on the catalytic cracking processing data, one or more of:
one or more hydrocarbon feedstock parameters associated with the hydrocarbon feedstock,
one or more first operating parameters associated with operation of the one or more first processing units,
one or more properties associated with the one or more unit materials;
content of the one or more unit materials,
one or more second operating parameters associated with operation of the one or more second processing units positioned downstream relative to the one or more first processing units,
one or more properties associated with the one or more downstream materials produced by the one or more second processing units,
content of the one or more downstream materials, or
one or more sample conditioning assembly operating parameters associated with operation of the sample conditioning assembly.