Patent ID: 9612635
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,Y02E

Claim:
1. A computer program to perform simultaneous synthesis of combined heat and power utility and process subsystems for a process facility, the computer program comprising processor readable code stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the processor readable code comprising a set of instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: defining model input data for a combined heat and power utility and process subsystem mathematical program model, the model comprising a cost function configured to minimize a total cost of combined heat and power utility and process subsystems of a process facility, the combined heat and power utility and process subsystems comprising a utility subsystem configured to generate steam and a process subsystem configured to consume steam generated by the utility subsystem, and the model input data comprising a plurality of rigorously bounded decision variables for one or more key process of the process facility, the plurality of rigorously bounded process variables comprising, for each of the one or more key processes: processing the model input data through application of the combined heat and power utility and process subsystem mathematical program model to determine model output data comprising process subsystem conditions and utility subsystem conditions, the process subsystem conditions comprising, for each of the one or more key processes: