Future refinery to have different look
The major trends in the refining industry are expected to be toward running heavier, lower quality crudes; consuming far more hydrogen; concentrating on gasoline, distillates, and petrochemicals production; and burning coal or coal-derived gas as refinery fuel. On-site processing of coal liquids shale oil, and other petroleum substitutes will become common before pipelining. Diesel fuel may be used in 3 to 4% of all automobiles, and diesel vehicles will account for 10% of new-car sales, by 1985. Some 20% of the lubricant market could be supplied by synthetics by 2000. Light refinery gases will be sold as pipeline gas and LPG or used as petrochemical feedstocks. A scheme for a gasoline plus distillate (G + D) refinery is proposed, which could process 200,000 bbl/day of low-quality feedstock into 170,000 bbl/day of G + D, 15,000 bbl/day of aromatics, 3000 bbl/day of synthetic lubricants, and 2 million lb/day of light olefins. The capital costs of the petroleum industry manufacturing sector could be $75 billion to $125 billion plus inflation during the last quarter century. According to Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Laboratories, the annual cost of pollution control in US refineries will be $7.6 to $12 billion by 1985, in mid-1974 dollars.
- OSTI ID:
- 6136578
- Journal Information:
- Oil Gas J.; (United States), Journal Name: Oil Gas J.; (United States) Vol. 75:35; ISSN OIGJA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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