Beyond the Obvious: Googling® Genoil

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else” -- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (Scottish writer, creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, 1859-1930)

Genoil (http://www.genoil.ca/) is a company you should bookmark. According to its Web …

“Genoil Hydroconversion Desulfurization Upgrader ®, in recent tests desulfurized at a rate of 99.5% at an operating cost saving of 61% compared with conventional competing technologies. Our process operates independently at a well, or at a refinery, the GHU upgrader significantly increases the product yields of all crudes including light, Arab Heavy, extra heavy, and heavy refinery feedstocks by dramatically raising the API and reducing sulfur. Turning lower value oil into high value crude oil and transportation fuels is what we do best. The GHU performs two tasks simultaneously, upgrading and desulfurization with incredible economics, and has been tested successfully on oil as low as 6.5 API. Our process achieves a zero waste bottomless barrel in the upgrading process unlike any traditional upgrading methods, and the heavier residue fraction left after upgrading is reused in a syntheses gas gasifier to produce the required hydrogen, steam and power to operate the process.”
source: http://www.genoil.ca/
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Like many company Webs, Genoil has a publications page (http://genoil.ca/publications) where you can download and read articles that have appeared in various journals and magazines. That’s obvious.

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Three of the articles available for download from the Genoil Web
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• Converting heavy oil to light oil will profoundly impact oil supply (The Oil and Gas Magazine -Summer 2008 www.oilworks.com)
• Is bottomless-barrel refining possible? (Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2007)
• The Bottomless Barrel (Oilsands Review - March 2007)
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Less obvious is the fact that by Googling you can find more articles than those listed on the Genoil publications page. This one, for example, is not yet available on the Genoil site. I found it by Googling® GENOIL HYDROCONVERSION UPGRADING SYSTEM

THE GENOIL HYDROCONVERSION UPGRADING SYSTEM (GHU®) FOR HEAVY AND EXTRA HEAVY CRUDE (2009)

Examination of the URL shows that the article is available on the Genoil Web … but to FIND it, you need to Google.
source: http://www.genoil.ca/_upload/fact%20sheets/Hydroconversion%20Upgrader%20for%20heavy%20oil%20and%20refinery%20residue.pdf

[Excerpt from THE GENOIL HYDROCONVERSION UPGRADING SYSTEM (GHU®) FOR HEAVY AND EXTRA HEAVY CRUDE]
Genoil GHU® Process Development In September 1998, Genoil decided to develop its own heavy oil upgrading process, based on a dual approach of visbreaking and hydroprocessing, and, therefore, by adding hydrogen mass, to obtain an increase in the liquid yields. A hydrogenation process should provide more than 100% of the fresh feed volume, instead of the 75-80% of the carbon rejection processes. To start the conceptual and preliminary design work on a hydrotreating process to upgrade heavy crude oil, Genoil acquired the Visbreaking technology from the Eadie Group and the “Bullet” technology from the Acquasol Corporation. The Eadie Visbreaking technology was developed through extensive pilot plant work conducted in the early 1990’s at the Alberta Research Council. This Eadie Visbreaking technology was modified and enhanced by Genoil. The Bullet technology is a mixing device which maximizes the mass transfer between two fluids. Full dispersion of one fluid into the other fluid is achieved (“micro-molecular mixing”) together with the “super-saturation” of the gas into the liquid. (Although this technology provided excellent results, Genoil has recently replaced it with an even more effective mixing technology.)
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Add the above search tip to the others that have appeared in Jean Steinhardt’s Desulfurization Blog … and point your colleagues to the Blog (http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/).