Feedstocks

The Feedstocks page shows the feedstocks available in the network. Feedstocks are materials such as crude oil, blending imports like ethanol or finished grades from exchanges that may be purchased by or transferred to nodes. Feedstocks are added automatically when plant models are associated with the network, or can be entered manually.

The Feedstocks page shows only the materials that are available in the network. Actual flows of feedstock at each supply must be defined in the Supplies grid in terms of their price and availability. Feedstocks can only be associated with supply nodes, so if a feed of material is required at a location a supply node must be available there. In other words, it is not possible to supply a feedstock directly to a plant node. The feedstock is added to the a supply node and then transported to the plant via a transport link.

Add and remove feedstocks

To add one or more feedstocks to the grid:

1. Click Add Feedstock in the Feedstocks group of the Home ribbon tab. The Select Feedstocks to Add dialog window opens.

2. Select each feedstock you want to add. The list contains only the feedstocks that have not already been added.

3. Click OK. The selected feedstocks are added to the grid.

To remove one or more feedstocks from the grid:

4. Select the feedstocks you want to remove by clicking on the corresponding rows in the grid. You can select multiple contiguous rows by holding the Shift key, or select multiple non-contiguous rows by holding the Ctrl key.

5. Click Remove Feedstock in the Feedstocks group of the Home ribbon tab. A confirmation dialog window opens.

6. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog window. The selected feedstocks are removed from the grid.

You can only remove feedstocks that are note in use in the case. To remove all unused feedstocks:

7. Click the lower half of the Remove Feedstock button in the Feedstocks group of the Home ribbon tab. A menu appears.

8. Choose Remove Unused from the menu. A confirmation dialog window opens.

9. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog window. All unused feedstocks are removed from the grid.

Note: When you remove a feedstock from this page, you only remove it from the case. You do not delete the feedstock altogether. The feedstock is still available in the Global tab page of the Model Explorer.

Customize the grid

Customize the grid from the Grid group of the Home ribbon tab:

• Click Find to show or hide a text field at the top of the grid to filter the grid contents. Type in the text field to show only the rows with text matching what you have typed. The matching text is highlighted in the grid. See Filters for more details.

• Click Columns to open a small dialog windows where you can drag column headers to remove columns from the grid. You can then drag the headers back to the grid to restore the columns. See Add and Remove Columns in Manage Columns for more details.

• Choose a View from the list, or click the cogwheel icon to remove a view or save any changes. See Views for more details.