It also gives a qualitative and quantitative criterion for the required investment to upgrade their fuel blending system to bring to par with other refineries in the world and to capture the lost benefits due to the sub-optimum blending system at the refinery. This part two of the series discusses how this methodology is executed by presenting the phased process in a case study for a 300KB/day refinery in south Texas, USA.
The refinery retained the services of the authors of this paper to assess the current state of their fuel blending and recommend the steps to upgrade/revamp their blending system, if found feasible, both technically and economically. An abridged version of this paper is published in “Bench-marking Fuel Blending Systems, Part-Two,” Hydrocarbon Engineering, March 2018, pp 67-72
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