1st, thank you for posting this. 2nd, I work at a refinery, our company supplies sulfuric acid (fresh) and then take the (spent) and ship it off to b recycled. I’ve been told the plant uses it to help increase the octane. Do u know anything about that process?
Hey there, you are probably looking for a sulfuric acid alkylation unit (SAAU). It is used to restructure a selection of hydrocarbons with unwanted properties (e.g. resulting from fluid catalytic cracking) to form more desirable hydrocarbons. In most cases these are clean-burning, high-octane fuels, such as jet fuel.
Actually, crude oils differ in composition depending on their origin. Furthermore, the reforming and cracking processes allow a certain flexibility with respect to the refined products. There is also not THE standard palette of products as customer needs and marketable products change over time. The clearest categorization with respect to your needs would probably be the ratios of certain fractions leaving the crude oil distillation as a function of the crude oil origin.
Sulphur - not suphur Naphtha - not naptha - it's spelled correctly on the picture of the naphtha can. Continuous - not contineous Vacuum - not vaccum Engineers making spelling errors drives me nuts.
