From Data to Action: Accelerating Refinery Optimization with AI

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Hauptverfasser: Pfeifer, Dániel, Papp, Ábrahám, Bernáth, Tibor, Varga, Tamás Zoltán, Czifra, Márk, Szilágyi, Botond, Kovács, Edith Alice
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author Pfeifer, Dániel
Papp, Ábrahám
Bernáth, Tibor
Varga, Tamás Zoltán
Czifra, Márk
Szilágyi, Botond
Kovács, Edith Alice
author_facet Pfeifer, Dániel
Papp, Ábrahám
Bernáth, Tibor
Varga, Tamás Zoltán
Czifra, Márk
Szilágyi, Botond
Kovács, Edith Alice
contents Nowadays refinery optimization utilizes sheer amounts of data, which can be handled with modern Linear Programming (LP) software, but the interpreting and applying the results remains challenging. Large petrochemical companies use massive models, with hundreds of thousands of input matrix elements. The LP solution is mathematically correct, but simplifications are made in the model, and data supply errors may occur. Therefore, further insight is needed to trust the results. The LP solver does not have a memory, so additional understanding could be gained by analyzing historical data and comparing it to the current plan. As such, machine learning approaches were suggested to support decision making based on the LP solution. Among these, Anomaly Detection tools are proposed to be used in tandem with the LP output. A transformed version of the popular ECOD methodology is applied. New methods are proposed to handle high-dimensional data: choosing the most informative pairs. Then, this is used alongside two 2D Anomaly Detection algorithms, revealing several business opportunities and data supply errors in the MOL refinery scheduling and planning architecture.
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spellingShingle From Data to Action: Accelerating Refinery Optimization with AI
Pfeifer, Dániel
Papp, Ábrahám
Bernáth, Tibor
Varga, Tamás Zoltán
Czifra, Márk
Szilágyi, Botond
Kovács, Edith Alice
Machine Learning
Applications
Methodology
90B50
G.3; I.2.8
Nowadays refinery optimization utilizes sheer amounts of data, which can be handled with modern Linear Programming (LP) software, but the interpreting and applying the results remains challenging. Large petrochemical companies use massive models, with hundreds of thousands of input matrix elements. The LP solution is mathematically correct, but simplifications are made in the model, and data supply errors may occur. Therefore, further insight is needed to trust the results. The LP solver does not have a memory, so additional understanding could be gained by analyzing historical data and comparing it to the current plan. As such, machine learning approaches were suggested to support decision making based on the LP solution. Among these, Anomaly Detection tools are proposed to be used in tandem with the LP output. A transformed version of the popular ECOD methodology is applied. New methods are proposed to handle high-dimensional data: choosing the most informative pairs. Then, this is used alongside two 2D Anomaly Detection algorithms, revealing several business opportunities and data supply errors in the MOL refinery scheduling and planning architecture.
title From Data to Action: Accelerating Refinery Optimization with AI
topic Machine Learning
Applications
Methodology
90B50
G.3; I.2.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15085