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The webinar will explore the high cost of incremental octane, which is driven by a confluence of Environmental changes and refining strategies.  HRC Fuels technology will be presented as a logical alternative to meet the environmental standards, while reducing octane costs.  The webinar will highlight the long term evolution of the US gasoline supply as refiners responded to regulatory changes over the decades.

The article explains how the Technology can be implemented in refineries with little or no capital, with significant cost savings.  The content is similar to that found in the “Refinery Application” tab of this website.

HRC Fuels is working with several renewable fuel producers to define the highest value use for renewable naphtha – a byproduct of SAF and renewable diesel.  Using HRC Fuels technology, we have developed recipes for renewable gasoline with up to 65 % renewables.  These simple recipes are very profitable and can be scaled up as producers or blenders ramp up acquisition of cheap renewable naphtha.

A reliable, green hydrogen supply is a key component of refinery decarbonization plans.  With this supply in place, refineries can begin to reduce their reliance on reformer hydrogen and increase the use of HRC Fuels technology to make paraffinic gasoline.   These changes reduce refinery Scope 2 and Scope 3 CO2 emissions.

HRC Fuels signed a consulting agreement with World Energy Supply (a subsidiary of Alt Air Paramount, LLC).;  HRC Fuels will provide consulting work to develop:

Renewable naphtha blending recipes tailored to World Energy
Strategies and recipes which allow World Energy to purchase renewable naphtha to lever the blending and marketing capacities of their existing plant.

In conjunction with renewable fuels suppliers, HRC Fuels is working to create a renewable aviation fuel formulation.  The formulation is specifically targeted at removing the last major source of lead in fuels and result in significant CO2 reduction.

A California renewable fuels producer has engaged HRC Fuels to identify opportunities to apply HRC Technology.  The goal is to improve the value of renewable naphtha beyond blending into E85. If successful, this effort will create a more profitable renewable gasoline solution.

Using HRC technology, this refiner has reconfigured their gasoline blending operations to create an 81 octane HRC gasoline CBOB, which blends to 87 octane when 10 % ethanol is added.  This is the first step of moving toward full HRC gasoline production.  It involved no capital investment by taking advantage of Ethanol Blending Synergy to increase refinery profitability.

This patent is the basis for HRC technology in automotive gasoline.  The formulation involves significant reductions in gasoline aromatics and olefins in favor of the higher energy paraffins.  High Hydrogen Content HRC gasoline is less toxic and emits less CO2 upon combustion.

Finding the Second Right Answer, LLC signed a consulting agreement with a mid-major refiner to identify low to no capital opportunities to improve refinery profitability using existing technologies and idle equipment.

John Burger filed the application using HRC technology in automotive gasoline.  The patent was approved in rapid order, 16 months, and had all 43 claims approved.  Foreign patent applications were filed in concert with an effort to establish a global solution.

This patent provides a replacement for conventional aviation gasoline, which uses TEL (a highly toxic lead based additive).  The formulation includes aromatic amines, a blend of paraffinic hydrocarbons and isobutanol as a co-solvent.  The fuel meets all current aviation gasoline specifications, without using TEL.  US EPA is contemplating a total ban on TEL in aviation gasoline.  John Burger (HRC Fuels founder) is named as an inventor and was consulting with Calumet when John and the team created the formulation.