Patents by Inventor Meriam Chebre

Meriam Chebre has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160320780
    Abstract: A method for monitoring properties of a mixture M of n components is provided. The mixture has properties x(B, u), where u is a recipe vector, B is a matrix of the properties of the n components, and x(u) is a vector of the k properties of the mixture M. The mixture also has at least one emission property representative of a product emitted by the mixture during the use thereof. The method includes monitoring the recipe u such that the resulting mixture M complies with specifications for each emission property. The monitoring includes estimating an emission property of mixture M of properties determined beforehand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Mériam CHEBRE, Guillaume PITOLLAT, Stefan JANAQI
  • Patent number: 8838278
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling the production of a mixture of constituents, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. By correcting the matrices for calculating the mixture constituents, used in calculating recipes, by introducing limit, order relationship and equality constraints, it is possible to avoid the drifts observed in certain special cases by the implementation of the method and to improve, on the one hand, the diagnostic assistance and the control of the estimation of the properties so as to limit the deviations from the actual quality of the constituents of the mixture and, on the other hand, the speed of manufacture of the mixture and the robustness of the method. The method and the system according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the constituents of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Marketing
    Inventors: Nicolas Petit, Yann Creff, Mériam Chebre
  • Patent number: 8827543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the production of a mixture of components, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. The method and the device according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the components of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop. Thus, the desired properties of the mixture are guaranteed despite large uncertainties in the properties of the components on the one hand, and partial knowledge of the mixing process on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Marketing
    Inventors: Michel Bernier, Nicolas Petit, Yann Creff, Meriam Chebre
  • Publication number: 20130255806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the production of a mixture of components, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. The method and the device according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the components of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop. Thus, the desired properties of the mixture are guaranteed despite large uncertainties in the properties of the components on the one hand, and partial knowledge of the mixing process on the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: TOTAL RAFFINAGE MARKETING
    Inventors: Michel BERNIER, Nicolas PETIT, Yann CREFF, Meriam CHEBRE
  • Patent number: 8401703
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the production of a mixture of components, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. The method and the device according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the components of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop. Thus, the desired properties of the mixture are guaranteed despite large uncertainties in the properties of the components on the one hand, and partial knowledge of the mixing process on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Marketing
    Inventors: Michel Bernier, Nicolas Petit, Yann Creff, Mériam Chebre
  • Publication number: 20110160921
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling the production of a mixture of constituents, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. By correcting the matrices for calculating the mixture constituents, used in calculating recipes, by introducing limit, order relationship and equality constraints, it is possible to avoid the drifts observed in certain special cases by the implementation of the method and to improve, on the one hand, the diagnostic assistance and the control of the estimation of the properties so as to limit the deviations from the actual quality of the constituents of the mixture and, on the other hand, the speed of manufacture of the mixture and the robustness of the method. The method and the system according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the constituents of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: TOTAL RAFFINAGE MARKETING
    Inventors: Nicolas Petit, Yann Creff, Mériam Chebre
  • Publication number: 20090187279
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the production of a mixture of components, especially a mixture with premix dead volumes. The method and the device according to the invention ensure multivariable regulation feedback by a dynamic observer providing an estimate in real time of the properties of the components of the mixture, said estimate being sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of the feedback loop. Thus, the desired properties of the mixture are guaranteed despite large uncertainties in the properties of the components on the one hand, and partial knowledge of the mixing process on the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: TOTAL RAFFINAGE MARKETING
    Inventors: Michel Bernier, Nicolas Petit, Yann Creff, Mériam Chebre
  • Patent number: 5831850
    Abstract: For controlling physical quantities in industrial plants, and particularly in the crude oil processing industries, the chemical and papermaking industries and gas, power stations and distribution networks, the value of a controlled physical quantity, subjected to perturbations, is kept between two limit values by modifying an action quantity. The action quantity should have small amplitudes in order to stabilize the downstream flows and should evolve so as to anticipate the perturbations. It is determined by performing fuzzy inference on a set of predefined decision rules, on the basis of values of the controlled physical quantity, of a secondary variable connected with the controlled physical quantity and of a context variable obtained from at least one detection variable or from a combination of detection variables representative of the physical quantities at the origin of the perturbations in the controlled physical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Elf Exploration Production
    Inventors: Meriam Chebre, Jean-Pierre Beauchene