oil refining plant low energy consumption

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • What are petroleum refinery energy efficiencies?
  • In GREET, petroleum refinery overall energy efficiencies are used to determine petroleum product specific energy efficiencies. Argonne has developed petroleum refining efficiencies from LP simulations of petroleum refineries and EIA survey data of petroleum refineries up to 2006 (see Wang, 2008).
  • How can a refinery reduce its energy consumption?
  • Inefficient refineries can reduce their own energy consumption by as much as 30% through more efficient technological, energy and organisational solutions. This can be illustrated as follows: a refinery, which accounts for 5% of the energy consumption of crude oil, has to work 16 days a year to meet its own energy requirements.
  • Can petroleum refining reduce energy consumption cost-effectively?
  • The findings suggest that given available resources and technology, there are opportunities to reduce energy consumption cost-effectively in the petroleum refining industry while maintaining the quality of the products manufactured, underling the results of benchmarking studies.
  • Does reducing heavy oil reduce emissions from a refining plant?
  • This implies that proportionally increasing heavy oil products with equivalent reduction of light oil products leads to overall reduction in emissions from a refining plant, as demand for hydrogen needed to convert the excess heavy components into lighter components is reduced, and its associated emissions are avoided. Table 11.