Nice, try. The caveat is at the bottom of the article.
(Fits in nicely with Sarah's "drill baby drill" and with green--less energy to process the oil).
Cheers!
...and Merry Christmas.
Yeah. The companies that own these refineries, with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of energy flowing through them every year, have been waiting for Perdue University to come up with the idea of checking different permutations of the refining steps to see if they can get the amount of energy they use in the refining process down below 2% of the total throughput.
I’m so glad I believe everything written by jounalism school graduates.
Thanks for the article.
“”Separations are a huge part of what chemical plants do,” Agrawal said. “Improving efficiency by only a few percentage points translates into major savings. For every 100 barrels of oil distilled, nearly two barrels go into supplying energy for distillation. That’s a lot of oil.”
Well,,,, perhaps they should build nuclear power plants, and they won’t have to use oil to distill oil.
Now Liberals will take this as evidence that they can mandate this change to save energy at no cost when this is flatly not the case.
Look for a New EPA Rule.
[[Method makes refineries more efficient]]
So apaprently gasoline is goign to drop to $1.00 again? No need to answer- we all know that is never goign to happen despite refineries cutting costs- they’ll simply pocket the extra profits leaving prices right where they are
Maybe their ideas could help when planning a new refinery. (There aren’t many new refineries being built, however.) Changing the sequence of fractionation columns in an existing refinery could be a very expensive undertaking.
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70 of the new sequences they identified could enable oil refineries to improve the energy efficiency of this step anywhere from 6 percent to 48 percent, said Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical EngineeringThanks Military family member, greywhiskers, and neverdem.