Thought I'd try V power.

[noggythenog]

Im not a refiner but i do work alongside refineries in getting their fuels in and out.


As far as i can tell then you can have as good quality petrol as you like......at an extra cost.....because the cleaner or purer or whatever you want it will take an extra process with the refinery......eventually it will be too good for a normal engine or too volatile.


I often hear of jet aviation fuel being traded as kero because it hasnt met the spec, even though they are broadly the same thing.


Theres the general acceptance that one refinery produces a better quality diesel than the other.


All sorts of crazy cargoes are made such as Naptha and reformate and many other Gasoline blend stocks.


Stuff is distilled into different stuff and then stuff can be further broken down into other stuff yet the more stuff you want outta stuff then the harder it gets and the more costly and labour intensive it gets to make that stuff :b


Cargoes are mixed and blended like a witches potion.


Even ships off southwold can do ship to ship transfers in a basic mixing and blending process.....i went on a couple of these and i was speaking to a surveyor who told me that half the cargoes were travelling around all these anchored ships and often ending back on their original ship in slightly different form.


I dont know for sure......but my "feeling" is that it all has less to do with how many additives are introduced and more to do with what crap is taken out and whilst i dont know owt about v power or whatever i can quite believe that it's quality is much better and that it has been mixed and blended better.......whilst additives must be added.....the only thing ive routinely heard of being added is dyes......apart from that then cargoes are either on spec or off spec.