Refinery and Petrochemical LP Planning, Crude Assays, and Blending Economics: True Boiling Point Cuts, PIMS/RPMS Linear Programs, Shadow Prices, Octane/Cetane Blending, and Crack Spreads

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 16m

How linear programming, duality theory, and physical chemistry run the commercial brain of a modern refinery and petrochemical complex: Crude Assays and True Boiling Point (TBP) curves, Swing Cuts, Aspen PIMS / RPMS Successive Linear Programming, Shadow Prices and Reduced Costs, nonlinear Octane and RVP^1.25 blending, FT-NIR in-line blenders, and 3-2-1 Crack Spreads.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold Open: Friday Morning in the Crude Trading & LP Room — Choosing Between 140 Crudes to Capture USD 180,000 a Day in Hidden Margin

00:05:05 Crude Oil Characterization & Crude Assays: API Gravity, Watson…