US 12,032,392 B2
Blending flow configuration engine in a material processing system
Joakim Kalvenes, Glencoe, IL (US); Jason Thomas Stewart, Venice, IL (US); John Thomas Clark, Jr., North Salt Lake, UT (US); and Rohin Wood, Perth (AU)
Assigned to THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by The Boston Consulting Group, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/666,300.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/219,606, filed on Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007852 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 11/13 (2006.01); B01F 23/60 (2022.01); B01F 35/22 (2022.01); B01F 35/83 (2022.01); G05B 17/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 11/13 (2013.01) [B01F 23/69 (2022.01); B01F 35/2205 (2022.01); B01F 35/83 (2022.01); G05B 17/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 19/41855 (2013.01); G05B 19/41865 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computerized system comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
accessing, at a material processing engine, conveyance network data of a conveyance network, the conveyance network data comprising a plurality of source nodes, a plurality of sink nodes, and a plurality of network edges of the conveyance network, wherein the conveyance network combines at least two source nodes of the plurality of source nodes to one sink node of the plurality of sink nodes;
based on the conveyance network data, identifying routing logic between the plurality of network edges of the conveyance network, wherein the plurality of network edges correspond to a plurality of network arcs each labeled as an uninterrupted source-sink path or an interrupted source-sink path; and
based on the routing logic between the plurality edges and the labels associated with the plurality of network arcs, generating a blending flow configuration comprising routing data for a first ore type of a first source and a second ore type of a second source through the conveyance network, wherein generating the blending flow configuration comprises:
for interrupted source-sink paths, identifying source-sink paths that flow through an interrupting variable conveyer of the interrupted source-sink paths;
selecting n possible blending ratios for the interrupting variable conveyer;
constraining source-sinks paths that flow through the interrupting variable conveyer using an identical blending ratio of ore at a corresponding source node; and
constraining the conveyance network to a corresponding variable speed routing logic.