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Oil Refinery - refineryuser - Dec-22-2019
Dear all,
An oil refinery processes a total of 20 types of crude oil over 2 years. At any one time, the refinery runs a mixture of 3-5 types crude oils. Because each crude oil is different, each crude oil mixture yields a different ratio of 4 refined products. Also, each type of crude is featured in more than one crude run.
Data available are: (1) mixture of the crude oils for each run and (2) the yield of 4 different products (A,B,C,D).
Objective: To find out the yield of each type of crude.
My question is: what class of problem is this? Is there a feature in Python that can give a good guess to this type of problem?
Thank you in advance!
RE: Oil Refinery - Gribouillis - Dec-22-2019
It looks like a linear system of equations, for example suppose that the crude
C_k produces the unknown quantities a_k, b_k, c_k, d_k of each product. If we mix together 3 crudes C_1, C_2, C_3 in proportions x, y, z and we observe the quantities q_a, q_b, q_c, q_d of each product, it gives 4 linear equations for the a_k, ..., namelyOutput:x * a_1 + y * a_2 + z * a_3 = q_a
x * b_1 + y * b_2 + z * b_3 = q_b
x * c_1 + y * c_2 + z * c_3 = q_c
x * d_1 + y * d_2 + z * d_3 = q_da_k, ....Modules like
numpy.linalg contain tools to solve systems of linear equations. When exact solutions cannot be found, you can also try to get 'best fit' solutions using Moore-Penrose pseudo inverses of matrices and the like. Again, numpy and scipy contain tools to tackle these problems.