Published March 2001
This report offers a complete information package concerning the petroleum and refining industry growth trends, environmental regulation trends, and new and improved technologies that can reduce the sulfur contents in gasoline to 30 parts per million (ppm) and to 15 ppm in diesel fuel. Our main focus is on new technologies that offer high sulfur removal efficiencies at little or no loss of octane in gasoline and little or no change in cetane number of diesel fuel. After comparing the merits of eight emerging new technologies, we selected the following four processes for detailed analyses and capital and production cost estimates:
- Mobil Oil OCTGAIN(tm) process
- Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTECH) column reactor process
- Energy BioSystems biodesulfurization process
- Phillips Petroleum S Zorb(tm) adsorption process
The report is a valuable source of information for sulfur removal technologies for refinery operators, technology licensers, equipment vendors, government regulators, process developers, engineering contractors, and any parties interested in environmental protection and improving public heath.
