June 2019
Process Control and Instrumentation
The benefits of automatic batch distillation
Process control methods have been applied to batch distillation of crude oil and intermediate oils performed in the Chevron DPST labs in Richmond, California.
The Authors
Hep Ingham started his career at the National Bureau of Stadards (now NIST) working on thermophysical properties of light hydrocarbons and equation of state modeling. He moved into refining by joining UOP’s catalytic reforming tech-service group for 5 yr. From there, he joined KBC in their Process Improvement Program, implementing monitoring and optimization software for crude units and major conversion units. He joined the Crude Assay group at Chevron in 2005 as a specialist in fractional index modeling of crude distillation and converting laboratory data into assays used for operations and trading.
Gennadiy Sverdlov is an Application Developer with Chevron. He has 30 yr of experience in the areas of process control and automation. During his 10 yr with Chevron, he has worked on a variety of projects involving the development of improved process control algorithms. Mr. Sverdlov holds two advanced engineering degrees in robotics and control systems.
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