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Purpose
- To provide a software tool to evaluate opportunities when associated products and services (like Virtual Pipeline) can be marketed and sold
- Develop methodology that could be used to help solve problems within different subsets of Gas Flaring Management
Objective
- Evaluate existing software
- Public domain
- Commercial
- Custom
- Develop cost functions
- Capital Cost
- Operating Cost
- Evaluate cost functions on sample network
Accomplishments
- Identified crossover point between cost of Truck vs. Pipeline distribution
- Highlight prospective situations where GE could sell the Virtual Pipeline concept and equipment to customers
Focus Area:
Manufacturing, Automation, and Control, Energy and the Environment
Project Type:
Sales and Distribution