fuel and feed

Butane

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Butane is an organic compound with the formula C4H10. Butane is a gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Butanes are highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gases.

PRODUCT APPLICATION:

Normal butane can be used for gasoline blending, as a fuel gas, either alone or in a mixture with propane, and as a feedstock for the manufacture of ethylene and butadiene, a key ingredient of synthetic rubber. Isobutane is primarily used by refineries to enhance (increase) the octane number of motor gasoline. When blended with propane and other hydrocarbons, it may be referred to commercially as LPG, for liquefied petroleum gas. It is used as a petrol component, as a feedstock for the production of base petrochemicals in steam cracking, as fuel for cigarette lighters and as a propellant in aerosol sprays such as deodorants.

PROPANE

PROPANE DESCRIPTION:

Propane — sometimes known as liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG — is a gas normally compressed and stored as a liquid. It is nontoxic, colorless, and virtually odorless; an identifying odor is added so it can be detected.

PROPANE APPLICATIONS:

Propane is most commonly used for space and water heating, for cooking, and as fuel for engine applications such as forklifts; however, its applications are rapidly growing due to new technology developments. When used as vehicle fuel, propane is known as propane autogas.

DPG

DPG DESCRIPTION:

pyrolysis gasoline is a by-product of ethylene production. It is produced in the pyrolysis (high-temperature) furnaces in steam-cracker operations. Pyrolysis gasoline contains a mixture of hydrocarbon compounds in the C5–C12 boiling range. The primary constituent is benzene, which can range from 25–45% of the stream mass

DPG APPLICATIONS:

Pyrolysis gasoline has been historically used as an octane booster for motor fuels and in petrochemical production.

MTBE

MTBE DESCRIPTION:

MTBE(methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (over 200,000 barrels per day in the U.S. in 1999) and is almost exclusively used as a fuel additive in motor gasoline. It is one of a group of chemicals commonly known as “oxygenates” because they raise the oxygen content of gasoline. At room temperature, MTBE is a volatile, flammable and colorless liquid that dissolves rather easily in water.

MTBE APPLICATIONS:

Over 90% of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) production is used in gasoline as an octane booster and oxygenate. With its high octane number, it is suitable where higher octane gasoline grades are sold. It has been favoured over ethanol because of its transportability, superior performance in reducing benzene and formaldehyde in gasoline, and its lower volatile organic compound content.

RAFFINATE

RAFFINATE DESCRIPTION:

Raffinate 1 (petroleum gas, butane-butene raffinate) is the remain of C4-fraction after the extraction of 1,3-butadiene. Raffinate 1 is the hydrocarbon (butane-butene) gas mixture. It is extremely flammable, colorless gas, with slight aromatic odor.

RAFFINATE APPLICATIONS:

Raffinate 1 is used as a raw material for isobutene production. Isobutene with methanol is used in MTBE production (methyl tertiary buthyl ether).

REFORMATE

REFORMATE DESCRIPTION:

reformate is the main source of aromatic bulk chemicals such as benzene, toluene, xylene and ethylbenzene which have diverse uses, most importantly as raw materials for conversion into plastics.

REFORMATE APPLICATIONS:

For use as a component in gasoline. Feedstock in chemical industry. Refinery Feedstock.

Ethylene

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Ethylene is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C2H4. Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry, and its worldwide production. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint “sweet and musky” odour when pure. It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds).

PRODUCT APPLICATION:

Ethylene is the raw material used in the manufacture of polymers such as polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS) as well as fibres and other organic chemicals. These products are used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer markets such as the packaging, transportation, electrical/electronic, textile and construction industries as well as consumer chemicals, coatings and adhesives.

NAPHTHA HEAVY END

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Naphtha refers to a range of volatile and flammable liquids produced by the distillation of petroleum. The liquids, which differ slightly in their chemical structures and boiling points, have various applications in the refining process – the main one as a feedstock for gasoline and the manufacture of olefins by the petrochemical industry.

PRODUCT APPLICATIONS:

fuels, feedstock for olefins plants.

NAPHTHA

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Pentanes Plus is a complex mixture of C5 hydrocarbons rich in isopentane and pentane. This material is a colorless liquid with a gasoline-like odor. It is volatile (evaporates readily) and does not mix with water (negligible solubility). Pentanes Plus is recovered during the manufacture of benzene from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas).

PRODUCT APPLICATION:

Pentanes Plus is mainly used as a gasoline blendstock for motor fuels.