Abstract
The production of Renewable Fuels has been embraced by the Global Oil and Gas Industry to adopt more environmentally sustainable practices. This remarkable technology switch has been made possible by concerted research and design changes to traditional sourcing, handling, refining, and storing of natural oils feedstocks and bio-based finish products. Each end of the production chain of biofuels presents corrosion challenges to the infrastructure being used in the process and they must be separately and thoroughly understood by the coatings industry. This presentation examines lessons learned by a leading coatings manufacturer when answering the call for recommending adequate linings for feedstock and finish product storage tanks with an emphasis on an actual project done in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada where a mothballed refinery is being refurbished to produce biofuels.
The R & D has been scaled up at different part of the world to mitigate corrosion in Biofuels markets. The raw feed stock supply options keep growing from standard vegetable seed oils to remaining agricultural waste, from animal fat to animal wastes and municipal wastes, are increasing the unknown variables in the process causing corrosion and solutions to mitigate. These waste to fuel category is attracting diversified feed stocks in offering from the new market. The information exchanges’ & improved tests could help in the lining selection process.
