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Lower costs for converting alkylation units from hydrofluoric to sulfuric acid

| By Scott Jenkins

For petroleum refineries, the cost of converting hydrofluoric-acid-based alkylation units to the relatively safer sulfuric-acid-based alkylation process (diagram) has been cost-prohibitive and has lacked specific economic benefits. Now, DuPont (Wilmington,…