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1 Refinery Feed
BETA DOCUMENTS - March 31, 2000

1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 3

1.1.1 Connections Tab ...................................................................................... 4
1.1.2 Assays Tab............................................................................................... 5
1.1.3 Streams Tab ............................................................................................. 8
1.1.4 Plots Tab .................................................................................................. 9

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1.1 Introduction
The Refinery Feed operation is a unique logical unit operation available
within the HYSYS.Refinery flowsheet. Refinery Feeds are added to a
simulation in the Main Simulation Environment.

The Refinery Feed model creates a stream which may be used as a

refinery feed stream to refinery type unit operations (i.e. FCCU, Cat
Reformer) or any other unit operation. The model requires the
following data:

• Oil Assay data

• Assay proportions
• Outlet stream conditions (flowrate, temperature and pressure)

The operation allows the generation of a product stream (which can be

used as a feed stream to a unit operation) defined as a combined KBC
Assay data matrix from the following sources:

• Oil assays generated in the KBC Oil Environment

• Indirectly from existing streams with associated KBC assays

The Refinery Feed operation can be used to set-up feeds as blends of

assays and/or cuts of assays. The operation also allows you to set up
streams that represent partial crudes or spiked crudes. The following
lists some uses for the Refinery feed operation.

• Create a crude feed based on Arab Light assays imported to

the Oil Manager
• Define a crude feed as a mixture of crudes, then use an Adjust
operation to manipulate the proportions of the product stream.
• Set up a VGO stream from a known crude by overriding the
whole crude composition with that of the VGO.
• Spike an ___ feed with the 400 degC+ portion of a REB crude.
The Steady State Modelling The Refinery Feed is added to your flowsheet by selecting Add
guide outlines all non-refinery
Operation under Flowsheet in the Menu Bar (you may also press
related operations in detail.
<F12>). Then, under the Categories group, select the Logicals radio
Refinery Feed is one of several
logical operations available in
HYSYS. All other HYSYS
Logical unit operations are
detailed in Chapter 10 -
Logical Operations in the
Steady State Modelling guide.

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button to filter out only logical type unit operatons.

Figure 1.1

The Refinery Feed Selecting Refinery Feed from the list, then pressing the Add button will
flowsheet icon
add the operation to your flowsheet. The operation will appear as an oil
barrel icon on the flowsheet.

1.1.1 Connections Tab

The Connection tab displays the name of the Refinery Feed operation
and the Feed and Product streams.

Figure 1.2

Each KBC assay connected to

the Refinery Feed operation,
either directly from the KBC
Oil Manager or indirectly
from a stream, maintains a
live link to its origin.

This means that the combined

KBC Assay data matrix will be
recalculated whenever one of
its individual constituent
KBC assays change.
The Oil Manager group allows you to specify any number of KBC assays
that are currently available in the KBC Oil Manager. In this way, a
stream can be defined based on a KBC Assay.

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The Streams group lists all the current streams available from the
flowsheet which are considered Refinery streams (i.e. have a KBC Assay
associated with them). All streams attached to the Refinery Feed model
will appear as Logical connections on the flowsheet.

When multiple inlet streams (or KBC Assays) are added, they must be
blended in proportions defined on the Assays tab.

Once completely defined, the Product stream of the Refinery Feed

model becomes the feed stream to a process.

1.1.2 Assays Tab

The Assay tab provides access to the Proportions and Composition
pages which are used to define parameters relating to the KBC assays
associated with the operation.

Figure 1.3

When multiple KBC Oil Manager assays are selected, the Proportions
Selecting the Basis button page allows the oils to be blended in proportions defined on either a
allows you to define the basis molar, mass or liquid volume basis.
for the proportion values

The Composition page on the Assays tab displays the composition

values for every KBC assay component selected from the KBC Oil
Manager. The default composition values used are taken from the
associated assay data matrix defined within the KBC Oil Manager. You
can then override this in a number of ways, using a different
specification for each assay in the mixture.

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Selecting the Edit button will open the Composition Change view.

Figure 1.4

Composition Specification In this view the composition of any individual component in the assay
choices: blend may be overriden based on the choice of Composition
Specification. A description of each method is outlined below:

Composition
Description
Specification
Allows you to define composition for an assay based
TBPcut
on an initial and final true boiling point cut range.
Allows you to enter the specific composition value
Composition
directly.
Distillations may be given on a TBP volume, TBP
Distillation weight, D86, D86L or D1160 test basis to define
composition data.

Composition Specification through Distillation

Specifying composition data using the Distillation option allows you to
define the distillation curve for the stream by entering a minimum of 5
and a maxium of 11 temperatures. Any empty cells will be estimated by

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the model.

Figure 1.5

The five mandatory temperatures are for the 5, 10, 30, 50 and 70 lv%
points.

The Losses cell specifies the associated loss. Normally, it is necessary to

specify a loss only for a stream such as gasoline because, when
measuring a distillation for such a product, the total recovery is a little
less than 100%. The difference is called the percentage loss, which is the
small amount if material that never condenses. This is calculated using
the following formula:

percentage loss =100 – lv% total recovery (1.1)

The percentage loss must be added to the observed lv% readings. In

turn, the distillation temperatures must be adjusted to the standard lv%
points (1%, 5%, 10%...). The model uses the value given here to perform
both compensation steps.

The Cracking Factor cell specifies the cracking factor for the stream
from this assay and must be a value between 0.0 and 1.0. The model

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uses the factor for the stream in all calculations, to convert from D86 to
TBP and from TBP to D86. The default value of 0.0 means that the
program makes no correction for cracking. A value of 1.0 means that
the full cracking correction is performed, as specified in the API data
handbook (ADD REFERENCE).

Composition Specification through TBP Cut

Defining composition data using the TBP Cut method requires

specifying the 0% and 100% cutpoint temperatures. The cut originating
from the heavy end of the assay should be entered in the 100% cell and
the light end in the 0% cell.

Figure 1.6

1.1.3 Streams Tab

The Streams tab provides access to the Conditions and Composition
pages which are used to define parameters relating to the product
stream associated with the operation.

Figure 1.7

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The Conditions page displays all the default stream information as it

appears on a standard Stream Property view. In order for the Refinery
Feed model to solve, the stream conditions must be fully defined. This
can be accomplished by entering any two of vapour fraction,
temperature and pressure.

The Composition page displays the composition values for every

component within the product stream. The composition of the product
is calculated according to the KBC assays of the feed streams, assay
proportions and assay composition specs. In the same way as the
selected KBC assays from the KBC Oil Manager can be manipulated,
the product stream compositions may specified in one of the following
ways:

1. Modified directly via the Composition radio button.

2. Defined by initial and final TBP cut via the TBPCut radio button.
3. Defined by distillation via the Distillation radio button.

Selecting the Edit button will open the Composition Change view
which will allow access to these composition specification options.
Refer to Section 1.1.2 - Assays Tab for further details.

1.1.4 Plots Tab

The Plots tab displays a graph of TBP Distillation data. The TBP plot
shows both KBC Assay curves and stream. You can customize the
individual plot by object inspecting any spot on the active plot (right
mouse button click) which will open a menu of options. For more
information detailing the graph control features in HYSYS, refer to
Section 6.4 - Graph Control in the User’s Guide.

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Figure 1.8

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