How can refineries transform and upgrade under the ethanol fuel policy!
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At the end of 2017, fifteen departments including the **Development and Reform Commission** and the **Energy Bureau** jointly issued the \"Implementation Plan on Expanding the Production of Biofuel Ethanol and Promoting the Use of Ethanol-based Gasoline in Vehicles\" (hereinafter referred to as the \"Plan\"), which outlined the actions to be taken to expand the production of biofuel ethanol and to promote the use of ethanol-based gasoline in vehicles. Therefore, the ethanol fuel policy has become a topic of interest for various industries. Please discuss the transformation opportunities for the refining industry under biofuel policies, how plants should be upgraded, and how existing gasoline facilities need to be adjusted
Actually, this issue has existed for a long time – namely the problem of improving and transforming fuel oil in the future. Nowadays, an integrated refining and processing design is commonly adopted, with this issue taken into consideration from the very beginning of the design process! Convert abundant fuel resources into chemical raw materials to maximize efficiency and flexibly adjust the product portfolio!
The ethanol gasoline policy primarily affects the MTBE process used in current refineries. The common approach taken now is to avoid using the MTBE route for C4, instead opting for alkylation to produce alkylated gasoline. Or pursue the field of fine chemicals to produce high-purity isobutylene and sec-butyl acetate, using the alkylation route.