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"Product 4" Group Crude A Crude B Crude A "Product 2" Group 1 Crude 1 Crude 2 Group 2 Crude 2 Crude 3 Group 3 Crude 3 Crude 4 "Product 3" Crude B Figure 1. Fraction distillation system in hypothetical refinery. "Product 1" Project requirements: 1. Table of content 2. Summary. Max of 150 words. Which were the two crudes assigned? What is the optimal crude blend to use? Which software did you use for the optimization? 3. Context of the problem. Max of 350 words. Which are the typical components in crude oil? What is fraction distillation? What are the typical dimensions (height and diameter) of fraction distillation towers? How many different products can typically be found at a crude refinery? What is product blending in a refinery? 4. Mass balance. Show the work that you had to do to obtain your system of linear equations (mass balances) in Ax=b form. You don't have to digitalize your procedure; you can include hand notes (organized hand notes!). 5. MatLab code. Show the code you used to calculate the mass rate of each product at a given crude blend. 6. Optimization. You can use any strategy you want to optimize this problem (MatLab or Excel). Include your work (.m file or .xlxs file) 7. Discussion. What challenges did you face? Did you get negative product flows with some of your blends (and if so, why)? For the optimization, why did you use the software tool that you ended up using? Discuss how much did your product flows change upon changing the crude blending, is this system sensitive to small changes in inlet composition? 8. Conclusions. Was the problem over or under specified? Regardless of which one you used, what advantages and disadvantages are there from using Excel vs Matlab to solve a problem like this one? 9. Bibliography "Product 4" Group Crude A Crude B Crude A "Product 2" Group 1 Crude 1 Crude 2 Group 2 Crude 2 Crude 3 Group 3 Crude 3 Crude 4 "Product 3" Crude B Figure 1. Fraction distillation system in hypothetical refinery. "Product 1" Project requirements: 1. Table of content 2. Summary. Max of 150 words. Which were the two crudes assigned? What is the optimal crude blend to use? Which software did you use for the optimization? 3. Context of the problem. Max of 350 words. Which are the typical components in crude oil? What is fraction distillation? What are the typical dimensions (height and diameter) of fraction distillation towers? How many different products can typically be found at a crude refinery? What is product blending in a refinery? 4. Mass balance. Show the work that you had to do to obtain your system of linear equations (mass balances) in Ax=b form. You don't have to digitalize your procedure; you can include hand notes (organized hand notes!). 5. MatLab code. Show the code you used to calculate the mass rate of each product at a given crude blend. 6. Optimization. You can use any strategy you want to optimize this problem (MatLab or Excel). Include your work (.m file or .xlxs file) 7. Discussion. What challenges did you face? Did you get negative product flows with some of your blends (and if so, why)? For the optimization, why did you use the software tool that you ended up using? Discuss how much did your product flows change upon changing the crude blending, is this system sensitive to small changes in inlet composition? 8. Conclusions. Was the problem over or under specified? Regardless of which one you used, what advantages and disadvantages are there from using Excel vs Matlab to solve a problem like this one? 9. Bibliography