Study of using fuel oil as furnace oil instead of crude oil in El-Obied Refinery

Abstract

The main objective in the refining petroleum industry is to achieve economic and environmental purposes as possible by producing specification products with attention to economic aspects. In ORC (EL-Obied Refinery Company) there are losses in availability products and profit benefit by burning crude oil as furnace fuel. In the past years there's bovines change in the crude oil prices, the price has risen more than fuel oil (long residue). So, this project studies the ability of replacement crude oil by using fuel oil(products) from distillation unit. The project includes the comparing between the existing(old) fuel system and new fuel system, properties of fuel oil as fuel, environmental impact for both system, cost estimation and profit predict from using fuel oil.

Key words: crude oil, fuel oil, existing fuel system, new fuel system