Patent ID: 7879118

Claim:
A system for making a fuel composition, comprising: a blending tank; a delivery system for providing fuel composition components to the blending tank, the delivery system comprising one or more hydrocarbon feedstocks, optionally one or more oxygenate feedstocks, and optionally one or more additive feeds; a fuel composition property monitor for determining at least one fuel composition property of the fuel composition in the blending tank; a controller for controlling amounts of fuel composition components provided to the blending tank by the delivery system based upon at least one fuel composition property as determined by the fuel composition property monitor, the controller operatively coupled to the fuel composition property monitor and the delivery system, the delivery system further providing to the controller an amount of each fuel composition component charged into the blending tank; and a trained neural network coupled to the controller, the trained neural network operative to determine adjustments to the amount of at least one of the one or more hydrocarbon feedstocks, the one or more optional oxygenate feedstocks, and one or more optional additive feeds charged into the blending tank based upon the at least one fuel composition property as determined by the fuel composition property monitor of the fuel composition.