Solving problem of multicriteria choice for reconstructing diesel fuel hydrofining plants

The article describes a diesel fraction hydrofining plant as a rather complex object of management where an important criterion is the optimal resource management of the processes of technological units. This implies maintaining the optimal mode for regulation of the main parameters of the plants, which determine the output product quality. Under inadequate temperature and pressure values, as well as other insufficient operating parameters, the sulfur content in the raw material increases and the cost of the output product decreases. There are several types of hydrofining plants on the Russian market, each of them shows high operating efficiency under different modes. An iterative-fragmentary approach for developing a model of multifactor preferences for selecting the efficient hydrofining plants with optimal modes has been proposed. The results of hydrofining plants processing the different concentrations of sulfur in the raw material and different amounts of the raw material per year were taken as the initial data. Testing of the plants chosen for the study was carried out under different power loads for the raw materials, volumetric feed rates, tempera-ture and hydrogen-containing gas circulation. The optimal choice of the hydrofining plant model and its operating parameters guarantees the high quality of diesel fuel.