Gasoline blending continues to present many challenges to refiners. Ever tighter environmental and performance specifications - coupled with the mandated use of bio-fuels and competing interests for gasoline range hydrocarbons - has greatly complicated gasoline production planning. In addition, the requirements for more boutique fuels, the introduction of new blend stocks, and heightened concerns about quality integrity has made the movement, staging, and segregation of gasoline stocks extremely difficult. Only the most sophisticated of gasoline blend scheduling tools can deal with such problems.
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