DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD FOR CATALYTIC REFORMING PROCESS CONTROLLING
The reforming process is well known in the oil industry and refers to gasoline fraction processing for the anti-knock characteristics improvement. The main raw material in this process is oil. The process is carried out in three or four sequentially connected reactors in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst. The technological complex of catalytic reforming and the tasks of its operation modes modeling are characterized by complexity. The complexity of the studied object is characterized by a significant number and variety of parameters that determine the course of processes, by a large number of internal relationships between parameters, by their mutual influence. Besides, when formalizing and solving problems of optimizing the reforming process, a number of problems related to a variety of criteria that determine the quality of the object arise. The multi-criteria nature of the systems under study makes it difficult to develop a mathematical description of the processes on the basis of which the optimization procedure is carried out. In this article, in order to increase the efficiency of the catalytic reforming unit, the task of studying methods and algorithms for synthesizing models of the technological complex of oil refining based on qualitative information that will ensure an increase in the output of the unit product and its quality is set and solved. Based on these models, the reforming process will be optimized.