Oil Blending World Blog
– Feb 2017
1. Octane and RVP
Giveaway Survey
This could cost you
millions of dollars a year. Do you know what your competition is doing? Are in
the upper quartile, or dead last? We are planning to do a “blind” survey
shortly, where the participants are not identified, but given a coded number
like a “Swiss bank account”…well, we’re joking…we are not laundering octanes…
What do you get if you participate in the survey? Your giveaway “status”
compared with the other US refineries.
We can also offer you a
study where beside the survey we present a detailed report regarding your
giveaway condition helping to improve it.
If you wish to
participate or to have more info, please send us an email at info@refautom.com
2. RIN “Problems”
If you are blowing
“mucho dollars” to fill governments (or speculators’) pockets, before wringing
your hands, you may wish to read our Oil & Gas Journal paper where we
give you six ways to mitigate (or slow, not stop) the bleeding.
You can get a copy
at: http://www.refautom.com/NewsDB/RINO1.pdf
3. Blending Advice
When
10ppm Sulfur IS NOT 10 ppm S
US Tier 3 rules and specs are in force as of January 1, 2017, but..10ppm in US is NOT the same as 10ppm elsewhere in the world. In US, 10ppm is an ANNUAL AVERAGE, with caps of up to 80ppm; in EU and elsewhere, 10ppm is an absolute per gallon/liter spec that cannot be exceeded.
US Tier 3 rules and specs are in force as of January 1, 2017, but..10ppm in US is NOT the same as 10ppm elsewhere in the world. In US, 10ppm is an ANNUAL AVERAGE, with caps of up to 80ppm; in EU and elsewhere, 10ppm is an absolute per gallon/liter spec that cannot be exceeded.
Blending
Ethanol:
why not take advantage of Ethanol’s cheap octane boost? Are you afraid of blowing your RVP, T50 or VOC specs? What if you can decrease the reformer severity-worth millions- if you do ethanol blend, is it still a bad idea?
why not take advantage of Ethanol’s cheap octane boost? Are you afraid of blowing your RVP, T50 or VOC specs? What if you can decrease the reformer severity-worth millions- if you do ethanol blend, is it still a bad idea?
RVP
Rollover:
we
are approaching to the transition season, don’t wait till it’s too late, start
doing something now.
4. Solving Global 0.5% S
Bunker Conundrum
You have 5 alternatives
to the “run-of-the-mill IFO 380 with 3.5% S:
1.
Use
scrubbers; this will cost you about $ 5 millions to install on each ship, but
will pay for itself in a matter of months
2.
Use
Marine Gasoil; this will cost you an additional $200/MT over IFO380, and you
can ask Germany’s Ms. Merkel to bail you out before applying to a bankruptcy
court
3.
You
can use an ECA fuel (a “trans-gender” fuel, not bunker, not gasoil) at a
premium of about $100/MT over IFO380
4.
You
can use specially formulated 0.5% S IFO380 by using desulfurized residuals or
very low Sulfur crudes to make the low Sulfur residue to prepare IFO380, at a
premium of about $100/MT over IFO380.
5.
You
can ignore IMO and continue burning cheap IFO 380 w 3.5% S. The risk of IMO
“Sulfur Police” to catch you: the probability of that outside EU and USA: zero.
5. Blending Courses
We provide both customized
in-house blending courses upon request and public blending courses.
Learn how to $-Make Money with Blending!!!!!!!!!!
1.
Gasoline & Diesel Blending
Course.
Three days course: March 21 to 23.
Where: Kingdom of Bahrain
2.
Gasoline & Diesel
Blending Course for traders.
Three days course: May 15 to 17.
Where: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Registration will open soon.
3. Bunker Fuel Blending Course.
Two days course: March 26 and 27.
Where: Fujairah, UAE
4. Bunker Fuel Blending Course.
Two days course: May 11 to 12.
Where: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Registration will open soon.
Refinery Automation
Institute organizes also one day Ethanol Blending Course.
Ethanol specs, properties, octane & rvp boost calculations, RINs and
Ethanol
Where: New York City.
Register at info@refautom.com
6. Blend Optimizer
Software
Are you ready to $- Make
Money with Blending? The $-Smart Blend Optimizer is a powerful tool, with a
friendly interface that allows us to predict in the shortest amount of time if
you can have profit with the Blend Components, the Blend Inventory and the
Specifications you have. All of them (Blend Properties, inventory, price) are
taken into account during the Optimization.
See more info about the
software: http://www.refautom.com/NewsDB/OptBroch.pdf
Step-by-Step Hands
on: http://www.refautom.com/NewsDB/BLENDOPTDES.pdf
Refinery Automation
Institute provides also customized training sessions to learn how to use the
Smart Blend Optimizer.
Please, contact info@refautom.com for
more information
Refinery Automation
Institute, LLC
6 Leslie Ct.
Morristown, NJ, 07960
tel. 973-644-2270
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