Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals ›› 2012, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (8): 1-6.

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THE CHOICE OF CHINA’S GASOLINE PRODUCTION PROCESS ROUTE FOR THE FUTURE

  

  • Received:2012-03-28 Revised:2012-03-28 Online:2012-08-12 Published:2012-07-30

Abstract: The current gasoline pool in domestic refineries is reviewed including dominant FCC blending component, lack of components from catalytic reforming, alkylation and others. Given the trend of future crude supply, consumption demand of gasoline, strengthening environmental regulations toward gasoline quality and emission/waste reduction during production, it would be critical for refineries to seek appropriate process routes for gasoline production based on the current conditions and challenges facing. Several recommendations to domestic refineries for future gasoline production scheme are proposed in this paper. Firstly, the combination of hydrocracking and catalytic reforming process should be incorporated into gasoline production more actively; secondly, the combined process of hydro-pretreating residue feed—FCC—hydro-fining FCC gasoline should be promoted; thirdly, more attention should be paid to high quality gasoline blending components from LPG resources through processes, such as LPG aromatization, butylene—iso-butane alkylation and iso-butylene polymerization; and finally, light naphtha isomerization can play a more important role as well.