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Subject 9. Refinery.

Issue: gasoline blend Vapor pressure & sulfur


are higher than spec. What knobs available? For vapor p: 1. MAX
reformer feed FBP but pay attention at aromatics constraint; 2.
Optimize C4 fr. recovery because C4 has a > RVP; 3. Add to
gasoline pool MTBE, ETBE or TAME; 4. Divert part of LN as
feed to steam cracker; 5. Remove some C5 from LN and send it to
H2 unit; 6. Use light olefines as alkylation feed; 7. Check if you
can increase the FBP of FCC gasoline. For Sulfur: FCC feed
depply pretreatment 99% or FCC post treating. Several option for
FCC gasoline post treating like, prime G from Axens, Uop
Selectfining, CD tech, Scanfining from Exon, Phillips S sorb, Oats
will be discuss in the next publications.

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