Production processes of road fuels and blending optimization in a complex refinery. How should they evolve to keep their role in the future transportation fuel mixture

Abstract

Several debates are being circulated about the extinction of fossil fuels from the fuel basket that will be used for transportation purposes in the near future. Is this the case or with appropriate blends with bio-fuels and new techniques of new-generation fuels production, fossil fuels can still play a major play in the transportation fields for a couple of decades to come? The latter will be discussed thoroughly in the second section of this dissertation. Beforehand we’ll visit the refining economics and we’ll describe how refinery companies make money optimizing their gasoline and gasoil/diesel auto production, minimizing their production cost. Thus, first chapter is devoted to gasoline blending optimization, describing in detail the construction of the optimization model along with the way to stand against the problem and the pathway to resolve it. In chapter 2 the same discussion will be held for optimizing the gasoil blending model in a modern refinery. In chapter 3 we’ll delve into the substitute of gasoline for Internal Combustion Engines (ICE), which is ethanol and in chapter 4, the renewable products of biodiesel and hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) will be presented in extent. In last chapter the legislation in EU and US principally but also in other places of the world will be highlighted in order the reader to be aware of the forthcoming limitations of the traditional fossil road fuels and the mandates that will encourage the world to use sustainable bio-fuels for its transportation needs extensively.