Posted on 03/07/2008 7:15:40 AM PST by Red Badger
I don’t really know, but it seems likely that waste oils could be recycled into fuel. But it seems more economical to recycle them into motor oils. Oils never “wear out”, they just get dirty and lose all their “additives”. I do not understand why we, as a nation, do not require ALL sellers of motor oils (Wal-mart, convenience stores, auto parts stores) to have recycling tanks at their places of business. We literally waste millions of gallons of used motor oils every year........
What? I throw my trash away but you can be sure if I could sell it or turn a profit on it some other way I would. Now someone takes “trash” oil and makes it more useful you call it spin!
This is a good thing, understand?
Look at the diagram above of the Pascagoula Refinery Process Flow. The bottom left white box labeled “Resid Processing represents equipment like a coker unit. This new unit would take its place with the same outputs except the dark gray line to the right for Petroleum Coke would not exist. 100% is planned to be returned for lighter, higher value products.
Perhaps I can offer some info. on your question-heavy oil is the grade that includes the really thick bunker oil used in ships and such. Motor oil is quite different and yes, it is and can be recycled or simply cleaned up a bit and reused as a lower quaity oil. While oil doesn’t wear out it does have its unstable parts “cooked” off during use and must have these replaced somehow. Not the whole story but the basics.
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Thanks, Hack. No idea what this will mean in the practical world. Raise the prices of Orinoco sludge a buck or two, perhaps?
Won’t make a difference for quite a while. A commercial sized unit is years away.
No. It comes out of the ground that way. Think of tar pits.
Well, if he keeps up his current behavior, it may not be his much longer.
:~) That’s a thought to bring a smile on my face...
Don’t it just? :-D
There are not to many scientists in congress in any case. There are far more experts on sodomy than science in Washington DC.
That looks impressive, but if you want to see a really smoking chart, bring up Phillip Morris. Also, they’ve been regularly coughing up higher dividends and so the overall yield has been growing like cancer.
I worked in the electric power business for 25 years. I was constantly amazed at the notion of such a gigantic systems, comprised of millions of parts operating at incredible temperatures, pressures, flows and voltages, working non-stop for years at a time. Most people do not have a clue about what goes on behind the scenes.
I read once that the hallmark of great civilizations is these huge, complex networked systems run by professionals that deliver our clean water, electricity, fuels, take away our sewage and trash and myriad other things we take for granted. It always makes me wonder why in the world anyone would want to run their own power generating and storage plant at their house (ie, solar or wind) unless they were off-grid.
I worked a few years at the Palo Verde nuke plant (actually 3 plants) in the Arizona outback. The ability to organize and bring so many people and parts together is amazing.
Our way of life is really built on the shoulders of the skilled operators amd engineers that tend the machinery isn’t it? Do all this stuff myself at home? No way, no more than I want to do surgery on myself.
Just signed up for that drip. Noticed the PMI spinoff about to go through. Maybe I should have waited until that was done
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