Petroleum Coke

Basics

• A solid, mostly carbon, material resulting from the processing of Crude Oil
• Called "Coking" (delyaed coking?)
• Often called PetCoke
• NOT RENEWABLE

Health Hazards

• It is a major Pollutant due to [[Heavy Metal )? content, mainly vanadium
  • Granted this is due to the Oil/Tar Sands it is currently made from?
• It also was stored in open piles...near houses...for...increased profit
• This caused it to form Atmospheric Particulate Matter

Bio-Petcoke

• Would this be of any use?
• Coker Unit for technical aspects
• It seems that given the (near) lack of heavy metals in Bio-Crude there shouldn't be too much of an issue
  • Similar to Charcoal vs Coal
• ESPECIALLY if using Best Available Technology WITH a clean feedstock

Internal Links

• Charcoal
• Coker Unit
• Blast Furnace
• Direct Reduced Iron
• Hydrogen Reduction Smelting
• Lime Kiln
• Coke (Fuel)

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Petcoke
• "Review of Analysis of Particulate Matter and Metal Exposures in Air (at The Chicago Petroleum Coke (“petcoke”) site )
• A Video by the Youtube Channel "VICE News" titled "Toxic Waste in the Windy City: Petcoke"
• A PDF by "EnVision" Entitled "Delayed Coker Simulation and Tutorial"
• A Whitepaper by the Congressional Research Service titled "Petroleum Coke: Industry and Environmental Issues"