R&D Portfolio

The Industries of the Future process helps to ensure that scarce R&D resources are strategically allocated to maximize benefits. OIT provides cost-shared funding to selected R&D projects that address industry-defined priorities as well as national goals for energy and the potentially high-payoff technologies that are too risky or costly to attract adequate private funding.

Listed below are documents that describe our research projects. Many of these documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Acrobat Reader. All other products can be ordered from our Resource Room using an online order form, and are free of charge unless otherwise noted.

Petroleum Industry of the Future

• Petroleum Industry of the Future Brochure (PDF 499 KB)

• Micro Gas Chromatography Controller (PDF 176 KB)

• Energy-saving Separations Technology for the Petroleum Refining Industry (PDF 108 KB)
  • Final Report (PDF 3.25 MB)

• Assuring Mechanical Integrity of Refinery Equipment through Global On-Stream Inspection (PDF 101 KB)

• Gas Imaging for Advanced Leak Detection (PDF 107 KB)

• Rotary Burner Demonstration (PDF 85 KB)
  • Final Report (PDF 438 KB)

• Biocatalytic Desulfurization of Petroleum (PDF 93 KB)
  • Final Report (PDF 315 KB)

• Gasoline Biodesulfurization (PDF 137 KB)
  • Final Report (PDF 19.89 MB)

• Development of a Computational Fluid Dynamic Model of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PDF 103 KB)

• Fouling Minimization (PDF 107 KB)

• Waste Heat Driven Ammonia Absorption Chiller ( (PDF 88 KB)

• Robotics Inspection System for Storage Tanks (PDF 142 KB)

• Catalytic Cracking Demonstration Plant (PDF 101 KB)

• Motor System Upgrades at Chevron Refinery (PDF 74 KB)

• Advanced Process Analysis for Petroleum Refining (PDF 1.06 MB)

Petroleum Industry of the Future in Utah

• Reverse Osmosis Unit Reduces Refinery Energy Consumption
• Utah Refinery Tour Guides

Petroleum Industry Publications

• Technology Roadmap for the Petroleum Refining Industry (PDF 317 KB)
• Technology Vision 2020: A Report on Technology and the Future of the U. S. Petroleum Industry (PDF 683 KB)
• Dept. of Energy/Petroleum Industry Compact
• Energy and Environmental Profile of the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry

Combustion

• Forced Internal Recirculation Burner (PDF 81 KB)
• Dilute Oxygen Combustion (PDF 55 KB)
• Oscillating Combustion (PDF 56 KB)
• Very Low Emissions: Radiation Stabilized Burner (PDF 67 KB)
• Packed Media Transport Membrane SuperBoiler
• Integrated Process Heater

Sensors and Automation

• Thermal Imaging Control of Burners
• On-Line Sensors for Emissions Monitoring
• Solid-State Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Hydrogen
• Fiber Optic Sensor for Industrial Process Control
• Wireless Telemetry
• Diode Laser Sensor for Combustion Control
• Real Time Gas Composition Analyzer
• Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor of Tank Gauging
• Diagnostic and Control of Natural Gas Furnaces
• Pulsed Laser Imaging
• Ultrasonic Inspection of Tubular Goods

Chemicals Industry of the Future

• Oxidative Cracking of Hydrocarbons to Ethylene (PDF 238 KB)
• Alkane Functionalization Catalysis (PDF 262 KB)
• Selective Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds (PDF 651 KB)
• Nanoscale Catalysts (PDF 257 KB)
• Selective Catalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Alkanes to Olefins (PDF 270 KB)
• Catalyst for CH4-CO Conversion
• Sorbents for Gas Separations (PDF 293 KB)
• Separation of Hydrogen/Light Hydrocarbon Gas Mixtures
• Olefin Recovery from Chemical Industry Waste Streams (PDF 236 KB)
• Pressure Swing Adsorption for Product Recovery
• Integrated Workbench for Gas-Phase Thermodynamics
• Alloy Selection System
• Phase Transfer Catalysis
• Membrane Reactors for Olefin Production
• Zeolite Membrane
• Nanofiltration of Solvents
• Alloys for Ethylene Production
• Metal Dusting Phenomena
• Mixed Solvent Corrosion
• Simulating Industrial Scale Flows
• Multi-Phase Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Corrosion Monitoring System
• Catalytic Hydrogenation Retrofit Reactor
• Instrumentation of Multiphase Flows
• Computational Chemistry & Reaction Engineering Workbench

Advanced Industrial Materials

• Advanced Materials for Reducing Energy in the Chemicals and Petroleum Refining Industries
• Hot Gas Candle Filters

BestPractices - Energy Smart Technology for Today

• BestPractices Brochure
• BestPractices Fact Sheet
• Plant Assessments
• Plant Showcase
• Software Decision Tools CD-ROM
  • MotorMaster 3.0 (motors)
  • PSAT - Pumping System Assessment Tool (pumps)
  • AIRMaster (compressed air)
  • Steam System Scoping Tool (steam)

Office of Industrial Technology (OIT) General Publications

• OIT Overview Brochure
• Profile and Partnerships
• Industrial Projects (IP) Locator CD-ROM
• OIT Project Fact Sheets CD-ROM
• Information Resources Catalog (listing of all OIT publications)

Subscribe to these publications:

• OIT Times (quarterly newsletter)
• Energy Matters (bi-monthly newsletter)
• Petroleum Refining Listserv (e-mail)