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Deposit Control Additive (DCA) injection, at Terminal tanks or Trucks loading racks?

03/10/2023 3:13 PM

I have been assigned to instal injection package to dose Deposit Control Additive (DCA) for motor Gasoline as part of clean fuel program to improve automobile engines performance and minimize emissions.
The package is ready but not decided yet for the location of injection port, whether upstream of storage tanks at terminal or at loading racks just ahead of filling customers trucks. Gasoline is received at terminal through a pipeline from refinery that is 500 KM away.
The first choice is to be installed at Terminal as the injection will be through one inlet pipe, while it is multiple pipes injection at trucks loading racks. However, due to the high cost of DCA there is a doubt that is might be lost during tanks regular draining/dewatering, knowing that DCA is soluble with Gasoline Fuel and there is a good mixing mechanism at Terminal.
Can you please help with ideas/advice for better decision of DCA injection skid location. Also, what are folks practice for such installation. Appreciate any clue and advice.

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Re: Deposit Control Additive (DCA) injection, at Terminal tanks or Trucks loading racks?

03/10/2023 3:57 PM

A more intricate injection system might be more expensive initially, but it's a one time expense, as opposed to a continual loss of product in perpetuity...so the breakeven point should be determined, or estimated, and justification can be presented....or not..

https://360.lubrizol.com/2019/Deposit-Control-Additives-Play-a-Critical-Role-in-Todays-Fuels

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03/10/2023 11:12 PM

If you have a complex distribution system with multiple injection points, it is inherently less reliable, and provides no recovery in the event of failure during export loading. If your primary injection system fails, you have the option of adding it before shipping it out. You can perhaps evaluate the costs of shipping out unconditioned fuel vs. the cost of a failsafe injection system with flow checks on main & additive and production interruption in the case of instrument and additive equipment malfunction.

The value of the additive once dispersed should be evaluated, if you are considering the cost of lost additive with lost fuel. I have to believe that the cost of the fuel discarded is far more than the cost of the additive once diluted, so the argument to dose upon shipment seems contrived.

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03/12/2023 12:08 PM

Polyisobutylene can be bought for $2.20 per kilogram, and, I'm guessing that other DCAs are similar: so if your worried about losses due to tank cleaning then I think you should be more concerned about loss of fuel.

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03/13/2023 7:07 AM
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03/14/2023 7:31 AM

The best thing to do is to bounce it back up to the Design Office, and ask there - just in case someone there scowls at the initiative and the commercial consequences of having been taken as an outcome of asking a bunch of anonymous strangers on the internet.

Surely there is/are (a) drawing(s)?

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