The new technology will increase the refinery’s output of winter diesel fuel by over 32 thousand tonnes per month during the seasonal high-demand period.
The deparaffination process enables the production of winter fuel from summer fuel through the transformation of high melting wax. The resulting fuel has increased performance characteristics, particularly a lower congelation point and the limiting filterability temperature which reaches -38ºC.
The capacity of Omsk Refinery's diesel fuel hydrotreatment unit is 1.2 million tonnes per year. In 2011 the refinery's diesel fuel production volume reached 6.1 million tonnes showing a 1.4% increase compared to the same period of the previous year.