I came across this video after looking up Coryton which was the Oil Refinery across the road from Coryon Fuels and today only the FCC Complex chimney remains. The white topped building has replaced what was the R&TSL laboratory built by Mobil Oil Company which did a lot of fuel research and testing as well as incorporating the Refinery laboratory for many years. In the 80's they did a lot of work on Mobil 1 the synthetic oil and found that it gave the Formula 1 engines (Honda I think) a 20 BHP power increase. Not a lot you would think out of 700+ BHP but for the Formula 1 bods it was so important that it was a closely guarded secret. One of the R&TSL guys went to all the Grandprix's that year to take samples and bring them back to Coryton for analysis - jammy sod! One year I had to help R&TSL to take large samples from various Refinery streams so they could blend them up and ship them to Japan so that Honda could do their own testing. It is good to know that the tradition of making special fuels is still alive at Coryton. I did have to laugh however at the potential volume of 12-14 million litres a year - it's nothing. In the Refinery we shipped out through the Terminal ( and that doesn't include what went out as other products over the jetties etc) something like 19+ million litres of fuel - A DAY.
This is the future, as sustainable fuels should be able to be blended directly in with existing fossils ones. That offers the prospect (with 100% 'blend') of making pretty much everything that uses fossils commodities now NetZero too. The bit that seems to be missing in UK is the origin of the sustainable components. We haven't got anywhere near enough 'bio' to feed ourselves, let alone fuel us. Air Fuel Synthesis using excess wind energy is the obvious answer, but they disappeared precipitously 13 years ago. Where's that industry now? Was the Advanced Fuels Fund Competition silently ended recently too?
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I came across this video after looking up Coryton which was the Oil Refinery across the road from Coryon Fuels and today only the FCC Complex chimney remains. The white topped building has replaced what was the R&TSL laboratory built by Mobil Oil Company which did a lot of fuel research and testing as well as incorporating the Refinery laboratory for many years. In the 80's they did a lot of work on Mobil 1 the synthetic oil and found that it gave the Formula 1 engines (Honda I think) a 20 BHP power increase. Not a lot you would think out of 700+ BHP but for the Formula 1 bods it was so important that it was a closely guarded secret. One of the R&TSL guys went to all the Grandprix's that year to take samples and bring them back to Coryton for analysis - jammy sod! One year I had to help R&TSL to take large samples from various Refinery streams so they could blend them up and ship them to Japan so that Honda could do their own testing. It is good to know that the tradition of making special fuels is still alive at Coryton. I did have to laugh however at the potential volume of 12-14 million litres a year - it's nothing. In the Refinery we shipped out through the Terminal ( and that doesn't include what went out as other products over the jetties etc) something like 19+ million litres of fuel - A DAY.
This is the future, as sustainable fuels should be able to be blended directly in with existing fossils ones. That offers the prospect (with 100% 'blend') of making pretty much everything that uses fossils commodities now NetZero too. The bit that seems to be missing in UK is the origin of the sustainable components. We haven't got anywhere near enough 'bio' to feed ourselves, let alone fuel us. Air Fuel Synthesis using excess wind energy is the obvious answer, but they disappeared precipitously 13 years ago. Where's that industry now? Was the Advanced Fuels Fund Competition silently ended recently too?