Sun Oil

The Great Canadian Oil Sands, Ltd. (GCO) (Sun Oil Co.) has been operating a plant at Eort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, since 1967. Initially, some 8050 t/d (55,000 bbl/d) of synthetic cmde oil was produced from coking (158) with the project expanding to 9220 t/d (63,000 bbl/d). Since 1978, Syncmde Canada has been producing ca 22,000 m /d (140,000 bbl) synthetic cmde oil by fluid coking from their plant at Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada (159) with expansion planned for ca 35,000 m /d (225,000 bbl/d). 

Lyondell and Sun Oil Co. are the main producers of benzene by disproportionation. Eiaa Oil Co. of Texas has developed the Eiaa T2BX process for toluene disproportionation usiag a proprietary catalyst. The new catalyst is claimed to reduce hydrogen consumption and is suitable for feeds containing small amounts of moisture (53). A commercial production unit was started up ia the fall of 1985. 

Biphenyl has been produced commercially in the United States since 1926, mainly by The Dow Chemical Co., Monsanto Co., and Sun Oil Co. Currently, Dow, Monsanto, and Koch Chemical Co. are the principal biphenyl producers, with lesser amounts coming from Sybron Corp. and Chemol, Inc. With the exception of Monsanto, the above suppHers recover biphenyl from high boiler fractions that accompany the hydrodealkylation of toluene [108-88-3] to benzene (6). Hydrodealkylation of alkylbenzenes, usually toluene, C Hg, is an important source of benzene, C H, in the United States. Numerous hydrodealkylation (HDA) processes have been developed. Most have the common feature that toluene or other alkylbenzene plus hydrogen is passed under pressure through a tubular reactor at high temperature (34). Methane and benzene are the principal products formed. Dealkylation conditions are sufficiently severe to cause some dehydrocondensation of benzene and toluene molecules. 

Sumika Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd., 188 SUMIPEX , methyl methaciylate, 124 Sumitomo Chemical America, hic., 188 Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, 188 Sumitomo Coal Mining Co. Ltd., 189 Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd., 189 Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co. Ltd., 189 SUMMIT , dicamba, 124 Sun Chemical Coiporation, 182 Sun Oil Co., See Sunoco Inc. (US), 249 Sunoco Chemicals, 249 Sunoco hic., 249... 

As experiments at Sun Oil Co. in the early 1930s indicated, there were serious disadvantages associated with alcohol. Wliile alcohol did in fact appear to increase the octane number, it left large amounts of deposits in the engine. Alcohol also vaporized out of the gas tank and engine at rapid rates. And the combustion temperature of the alcohol group is lower than for hydrocarbons because it is already partially oxidized. 

This activity expanded greatly during World War II. Refiners, snch as Jersey Standard, Sun Oil, Shell, and Sacony-Vacuum, pioneered the mass production of advanced and strategically critical petrochemicals including butadiene for use as raw-material for synthetic rubber, toluene for m advanced explosives, as well as high-octane motor fuel and aviation gasoline. 

Further catalytic cracking efforts did not take place in earnest in this country until the early 1930s. Sun Oil undertook the first significant commercial effort in catalytic cracking beginning m 1932. At this time. Sun Oil, based in Marcus ITook, Pennsylvania, was a... 

Oil found at Spindletop, Texas, which leads to the forniation of Gulf, Texaco, and Sun oil companies. 

August W. Giebelhaus. Business and Government in the Oil Industry A Case Study of Sun Oil, 1876-1945. Greenwich CT JAI Press, 1980. Source for Sun Oil description of knock and TEL added in factory. 

Ever since the major power failure in 1965 that blacked out the northeastern United States, an important site consideration has been the reliability of electrical power systems. For instance, a 5-hour power failure cost a New Jersey firm two days downtime. In another case the Sun Oil Company s 170,000-barrel-per-day refinery at Marcus Hook, Pa., suffered a 250,000 loss due to a 3 1/2-hour power failure. It was four days before full production could be restored. The problem is that there is no section of the country that has not had a major power failure. 

Arosorb A process for extracting aromatic hydrocarbons from refinery streams using a solid adsorbent, either silca gel or achvated alumina. Developed by the Sun Oil Company in 1951. California Research Corporation developed a similar process. 

Koch A family of processes for making polymethyl benzenes by isomerization, alkylation, and disproportionation in the presence of a Friedel Crafts catalyst. Invented in 1968 by the Sun Oil Corporation and developed and commercialized by the Koch Corporation. 

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