Design Criterias for Power Supply to the New Refinery

Due to the limited availability of known crude oil reserves, the demand for petroleum products has shown that high demand for petroleum products is due to a high rate of increase in the petroleum demand emerging economies. In order to meet that demand with less energy consumption and low investment cost together with higher power supply continuity, lots of design criteria has been taken into consideration for the new refinery’s electrical system design. The new refinery will meet the increasing demand of diesel consumption of Turkey. Diesel is more economical in Turkey as well as all over the world. The new refinery will process “Fuel Oil" produced in the existing refinery without export additional Crude Oil. Unlike current Refineries, the new Refinery will be mostly operated with electrical energy sources, because electrical equipment is more efficient than steam, except very critical ones. For this purpose, it has been paid special for attention to the selection of the electrical system configuration, the number and type of power supply to the electrical equipment. Such that the design should allow maintaining the continuity and operational flexibility of the system to the highest level and at the same time using less energy-consuming technologies. In this study, electrical system design criteria for intelligent electrical network operating system of the new refinery which is registered as one of the top three European refiners in terms of conversion rate, is evaluated under the engineering point of view.