Refining
What is the outlook for renewable diesel?
'Green' fuel technologies are pursuing different paths to achieve acceptance as credible transportation diesel
Second-generation renewable diesel offers advantages
Hydrotreated vegetable oils are more compatible with engine design and operations
Update on US biodiesel production
What a difference a year makes; progress regarding fuel specifications facilitates growing acceptance of renewables
Can motor fuels be redesigned?
How challenging is the task to provide 'green' transportation fuels without bankrupting the global economy?
What are possible hydrogen sources for refinery expansions?
Studying supply options for new refineries or expansions and evaluating possible synergies from 'over-the-fence' supply vs. typical self production
Fluid catalytic cracking—a diesel producing machine
Advanced catalyst systems maximize middle distillate yields
HPIn Europe: London oil gathering demands social stamina
Two of the most important dates in the HPI's meetings calendar are upon us. This month in London, where I'll be headed, it's International Petroleum Week (www.ipweek.co.uk). A few weeks later, the Nat..
HPIn Europe: Now for some technology, entertainment and design
James Watson, the Nobel Laureate who with Francis Crick first discovered the structure of DNA, has gone to great lengths in his life to do something that comes relatively easily to me. In his early yo..
HPIn Europe: Refining industry on a high roll
The annual European Refining Technology Conference (ERTC) returns to Spain this month after six years of defining change. In Madrid in 2001 we were still ruminating the endless redundancies that follo..
Reduce alkylate costs with solid-acid catalysts
New developments in alkylation processes mitigate risk while reducing operating costs
- EU warns of prolonged energy shock, forced cuts if Iran war continues 4/15
- Europe's summer flights at risk as Iran war exposes refining decline 4/15
- Slovak refiner says no deal yet on Adria pipeline tests 4/15
- Japan's weekly gasoline prices largely flat as subsidies offset price spikes 4/15
- Botswana has not requested stake in Lobito refinery, Angola's Sonangol says 4/15
- Tasnee announced delay to SEPC's ethylene/polyethylene plant expansion project 4/15
