Method for assessing plant capacity
OwnerJan Bryan Smithinventor
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Abstract
A method to determine the capacity of a plant over a time window of interest, the time window having a time length P, having the steps of: (a) gathering the plant's historical production data over a selected time period of length L and calculating the cycle entries for that data set; (b) calculating capacity C(i,1) for each contiguous portion p(i,1) of length p of the cycle entries from the previous step; (c) storing that calculated capacities C(i,1); (d) randomly shuffling the cycle entries; (e) calculating the capacity C(i,2) for each contiguous portion p(i,2) of the shuffled cycle entries; (f) storing the calculated capacities C(i,2); and (g) repeating steps (e)-(f) for a sufficient number of iterations, and then creating a histogram of the calculated capacities C(i,j).
Claims29
A method to determine the capacity of a plant over a time window of interest, said time window having a time length P, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) assembling said plant's historical production data over a selected time period;
- (b) creating the cycle entry data set for said time period, said cycle entry data set representing
- a plant operating time of length L;
- (c) calculating the capacity (C(i,1)) for each contiguous portion of length P of the cycle entry data set, where “i” is an index representing the number of contiguous P length portions of the cycle entry data set of length L;
- (d) shuffling the elements in the cycle entry data set;
- (e) calculating the capacities (C(i,j)), j=2, for each contiguous portion of length P of said shuffled cycle entry data set;
- (f) storing said calculated capacities C(i,2), j=2;
- (g) repeating steps (d)-(f) a sufficient number of times, incrementing the index j for each iteration;
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- (h) creating a histogram data set from said stored capacities C(i,j).
A method to determine the capacity of a plant over a time window of interest, said time window having a time length P, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) assembling said plant's historical production data over a selected time period;
- (b) creating the cycle entry data set for said time period, said cycle entry data set representing a plant operating time of length L;
- (c) calculating the capacity C(i,1) for each contiguous portion of length P of said cycle entries from the previous step, where “i” is an index ranging over the number of contiguous P length portions of the cycle entry data set of length L;
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- (d) creating a first histogram(1) data set from said stored capacities C(i,1).
A method to determine the capacity of a plant over a time window of interest, said time window having a time length P, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) assembling said plant's historical production data over a selected time;
- (b) calculating the cycle entry data set for said time period, said cycle entry data set representing a plant operating time of length L;
- (c) creating a first extended cycle entry data set from said cycle entry data set by including at least one shuffled cycle entry data set in said extended cycle entry data set, said extended cycle entry data set representing a plant operating time of length M(1);
- (d) calculating the capacity C(i,1) for each contiguous portion of length P of said first extended cycle entry data set, where “i” is an index ranging over the number of contiguous P length portions of the extended cycle entry data set of length M(1);
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- (e) creating a histogram data set from said stored capacities.
A method to determine the capacity of a plant over a time window of interest, said time window having a time length P, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) assembling said plant's historical production data over a time period;
- (b) creating a first cycle entry data set for said time period, said first cycle entry set representing a plant operating time of length L;
- (c) creating a first extended cycle entry data set, said first extended cycle entry data set being a set of M1 cycle entry data sets, where each of said M1 cycle entry data sets is a shuffled version of said first cycle entry data set, M1 being a pre-selected integer;
- (d) calculating the capacities (C(i,1)) for each contiguous portion of length P of said first extended cycle entry data set, where “i” is an index ranging over the number of contiguous P length portions in said first extended cycle entry data set;
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- (e) creating a histogram data set from said capacities C(i,1).
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