Análisis de los costos de producción de una refinería con dos fuentes de petróleo, pesado y ligero.

Abstract

The objective of the present investigation was to determine the optimum quantity of barrels of light and heavy crude oil to be used for the production of petroleum products at the lowest cost. For the development of the case study a descriptive methodology was applied, through twelve phases in the investigation that begins with the gathering of information that conceptualizes the administration and investigation of operations, specifically the graphic method to solve linear programming problems. The situation raised in the problem has presented as results that 3 million barrels of heavy crude must be used to produce exactly, at the minimum cost of 90 million dollars, the barrels of gasoline, heating fuel and turbine fuel stipulated in the contract production of the refinery. It has been possible to conclude that linear programming allows minimizing production costs by demonstrating through the graphic method an area where the coordinates of the points of intersection are possible solutions that overcome the constraints of the model, and that having replaced the values in the Linear function could be compared and determine the optimal point.