Review article
POSSIBILITIES OF PRODUCING MOTOR FUELS AT INA IN COMPLIANCE WITH NEW QUALITY REQUIREMENTS
Ksenija Kaluđer Kamčev
Mladen Ištuk
Miroslav Jednačak
Abstract
Abstract
Fuel production and consumption have over the past years been marked by major changes associated with increasingly stringent legal regulations referring to harmful emission reduction. In Europe and in the world, a legislative system has been elaborated detailing values of all the fuel quality parameters based on which fuel technology and quality shall be shaped as of 2000. This requires complex undertakings within the refinery processing structure, from building new processing units, through reconstruction of the existing ones, to the questioning of the processing flows' optimal character. The first two solutions imply major capital investments, so that the global oil industry is passing through a series of dynamic investment changes and ownership organization modifications.
The purpose of the paper is to examine the possibilities of producing fuels meeting new specifications (in Croatia, after 2002) according to the existing technological configuration of the Rijeka Oil Refinery, using the LP production optimization model. Production possibilities and payability are examined for various options regarding crude choice, flow redirectioning, and blending.
Keywords
motor gasolines; diesel fuel; motor fuels quality requirements; linear programing; crude oil selection by composition; processing selection
Hrčak ID:
10465
URI
Publication date:
10.11.2000.
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