Improved Refinery Processing Strategies

At SwRI, we have integrated teams working on all facets of renewable petrochemicals and related infrastructure developed for real-world fuel producers. Our expertise ranges over thermochemical methods for conventional and unconventional feedstock cracking and conversions facilitated by scaled-up isomerization and hydrotreating technologies to obtain refined fuels while achieving the desired properties and quality standards. Simultaneously, SwRI also works on engine testing and required adaptations for such renewable fuels. Renewable gasoline and diesel are characteristically like their fossil fuel counterparts and thus can be used as standalone fuels or blended with fossil fuels in internal combustion engines. Another growing field with competent demand is the production of SAF from various sustainable sources. Through numerous and diverse projects completed over decades SwRI promotes an achievable and sustainable energy and material economy. This presentation will cover the different facets of scaling-up and upgrading different feedstocks to renewable petrochemicals while competing and learning from fossil-based petrochemicals.