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Indian refineries cannot process high sulfur crude oil from gulf
Although both India and China have substantial capacities to process crude oil, the biggest drawback Gulf oil producers face in these two countries is that about 60 percent of that capacity is not capable of refining the Gulf?s high-sulphur, or ?sour,? crude oil.
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Biorefineries vs Petro refineries in the US
16 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol in the U.S. transportation fuel mix by 2022. To get there, the industry would need to build 444 refineries the size of the BP-Verenium collaboration. These biofuels refineries can?t get too big because then they would outgrow their feedstock supply. To put that in perspective, there are fewer than 150 fossil fuel refineries in the U.S. - Read More
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Diff refineries process difference types of...
crude. heavy, solid, sweet or light crudes
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Refining diesel costs more
The cost of refining diesel fuel can be considerably higher than the price of refining regular gasoline. - Read More
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Excellent data oil refining costs
This is an old document for Romania sunflower oil extraction and refining. The data are detailed for each stage of the oil production - from cultivation until refining (PDF) - Read More
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A Large use of platinum in petroleum refining
Today one of the largest uses of platinum is in petroleum refining, as a catalyst. Most of this platinum is eventually recovered.
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Topics : Oil
Bunge, Verenium pact for new Purifine enzyme for biodiesel processing
In Missouri, Bunge announced that it will become the process implementation partner in the launch of Verenium's new Purifine enzyme for seed oil refining. - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy