Which has a higher ex-factory price, aviation fuel or gasoline and diesel?
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What can be found online are all retail prices. Is it profitable to convert diesel into jet fuel through hydrocracking, or into gasoline through catalytic cracking? How to calculate the economic costs?
Of course, aviation fuel has the highest price, but its quality standards are also very high; it must be refined through hydrogenation, and it requires a high calorific value as well as strict control over its freezing point. If a company does not have hydrogenation refining capabilities, it should not consider producing aviation fuel.
The answer above is correct; it’s not easy to convert the boiling range of kerosene into that of gasoline, right? It’s simple to turn it into diesel – no conversion is needed\ud83d\ude03
Thank you. How much is the general price difference? The conversion of diesel through hydrogenation into aviation fuel is primarily costly due to high hydrogen consumption, with varying hydrogen requirements depending on the raw material used. The cost of hydrogen in the refinement process ranges from as low as 100 yuan per ton to as high as 800 yuan per ton.
Yes. However, jet fuel can be partially converted into gasoline through catalysis; it’s just a matter of yield. Of course, whether it makes sense or not mainly depends on economic considerations.
Relatively speaking, it is still cost-effective to switch to diesel, as the demand for diesel remains much larger