SSRL X-rays are focused to illuminate a small sample of catalysts inside a movable cylindrical holder. A lens magnifies the resulting sample image onto a screen, a CCD camera captures the 2-D image, and software is used to reconstruct a 3-D image of the single catalyst particle from a series of these 2-D images. Credit: Florian Meirer/Utrecht University
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Refinery ping!............
GM used to install pellet converters on its cars and trucks.
[[”We are trying to understand how this aging happens, and we’re working with companies that produce these FCC catalysts to make the process more efficient.”]]
so if they figure this out, gasoline will be around $.60 a gallon again?
The crack spread is probably the most important financial strategy within the energy industry. The price of the crack spread is so crucial that it is closely monitored by commercials, hedge funds, banks, energy companies and governments. The value of the crack spread summarizes and combines, in 1 strategy, the price of crude oil and its two most important derivatives: diesel and gasoline. The entire oil industry, which still plays a very significant role as far as energy production is concerned, is strongly and inevitably linked to the performance of the crack spread. The present research investigates the structure of the aforementioned strategy and the quantitative relationships of and among its components.
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http://www.insidefutures.com/article/1267689/The%20Crack%20Spread.html
