#Desulfurization
According to Russian media, the second drone attack at the Ryazan oil refinery, heavily damaged the AVT-4 unit, which processes crude into fuel distillates. Additional fires broke out in desulfurization & vacuum gasoil conversion units.
January 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
👀🔥 Kotovo Gas Processing Plant halted production for three months to address the impact of the October 9, strike.

The associated petroleum gas desulfurization unit was damaged.
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🛑Section 200 - Visbreaking of tar (1.65 million tons/year): allows thermally splitting of heavy residue and obtaining additional light fractions.
🛑Section 300 - Desulfurization unit: converts hydrogen sulfide gases into marketable sulfur.
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
closing the strait of hormuz is kinda a "welps that was a mess, we got it reopened (dragged out that wreckage...), stuff is moving again" problem.

abqaiq is a facility in saudi that ~85% of their oil has to pass through. it's a complex desulfurization plant. How long would it take to rebuild that.
people think iran closing the strait is their main threat but it's actually flattening the facilities at abqaiq
February 18, 2026 at 11:57 PM
See the impact of a +0.5 W/m² shipping desulfurization forcing compared to the Forster et al. (=IPCC methodology) here:
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
He even spoke about the potential climate impacts of desulfurization.

The only leader of any country I've ever heard do this...

bsky.app/profile/leon...
Listening back to speeches by Bush Sr from June 1989 and Bush Jr from June 2001, they sound remarkably clear and coherent, compared to the current president of United States (and compared to the previous one..)

Here both Bushes speak about sulfur:
April 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Flue gas desulfurization ftw
We’ve done a great job of reducing some air pollutants since the dirty 1970s. The modern environmental movement and regulations did that.👍

But if we don’t also reduce GHG emissions at the same time we’re setting ourselves up for unprecedented rates of global warming. 👎
January 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market | Size & Outlook 2035 | WiseGuyReports www.wiseguyreports.com/reports/flue...
Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market | Size & Outlook 2035
The Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market is expected to grow from 20.9 USD Billion in 2025 to 30.8 USD Billion by 2035. The Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market CAGR (growth rate) is expected to b...
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September 25, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Satellite images show the aftermath of the June 21 attack on the Tyumen Oil Refinery carried out with upgraded FP-1 drones. The strike damaged the refinery’s diesel deep desulfurization unit. More than 2,000 km from the border.
June 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
A coal fired power plant burns 90-150 truckloads of coal per day. But the fly ash is a raw material for high-strength cement, cutting CO2 emissions of that industry, and desulfurization to prevent acid rain produces gypsum for making drywall.
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market | Size & Outlook 2035 | WiseGuyReports www.wiseguyreports.com/reports/flue...
Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market | Size & Outlook 2035
The Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market is expected to grow from 20.9 USD Billion in 2025 to 30.8 USD Billion by 2035. The Flue Gas Desulfurization System Market CAGR (growth rate) is expected to b...
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September 24, 2026 at 11:05 AM
CFD optimization of BFG desulfurization systems

🌀 Maldistribution impairs desulfurization.
📊 Flow deviation cut to ±0.3% low-pressure.
🛠️ Inlet deflectors + sealing perforated plates.
⚙️ Uniformity index up to 0.97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32604/fdmp.2026.084304 #CFD #Desulfurization
September 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
These fools have no idea what Iran can do to them. If they hit their oil and gas separation plants, their desulfurization plants, and their desalination plants, it's literally over for them, not just economically but as a nation.
April 1, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The most effective attack on an 🇷🇺 oil refinery is when it targets gasoline reforming.
This will stop the production of gasoline and the production of hydrogen, a by-product needed for diesel desulfurization and hydrocracking.
SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Also right downstream of all that oil desulfurization, for sure.
March 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1....

Once upon a time, "clean coal" just meant scrubbing for sulfur (or sulfur emissions) to reduce acid rain. Trump and co. like to pretend it means that its actually clean.
Coal Desulfurization via Different Methods: Energy Sources: Vol 26 , No 6 - Get Access
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September 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The U.S. has several refineries specifically designed to process Venezuelan oil. Historically, U.S. Gulf Coast refineries have been the principal processors of Venezuelan heavy crudes & have invested in coking & desulfurization units to handle heavy, sour oils.
As for EV's, think rolling black outs.
September 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Flue gas desulfurization and SO₂ recovery within a flexible hydrogen-bonded organic framework, from Xian-He Bu, Banglin Chen, Baiyan Li and their team.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemsky
Flue gas desulfurization and SO2 recovery within a flexible hydrogen-bonded organic framework - Nature Chemistry
The efficient removal of SO2 from flue gas remains a considerable challenge. Now a flexible hydrogen-bonded organic framework has been developed that exhibits high selectivity for SO2 capture from flu...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mechanically Triggered Protein Desulfurization:
Easy-to-use ultrasound-induced desulfurization strategy
www.chemistryviews.org/mechanically...
January 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I think I remember you saying there was an important desulfurization refinery that might be a target near Iran?

I don’t remember the name or country though.

Do you know if that’s been attacked yet?
March 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
TIL that many drywall plants are colocated with coal power plants and use the waste from flue gas desulfurization as their source of gypsum.

Fascinating.

Will there be a meaningful increase in the price of drywall as coal power plants close and they have to source naturally occurring gypsum?
December 7, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Bio-desulfurization of fossil fuels has been a classic env biotech challenge for decades, but the field became stagnant for a while … until @pglekas.bsky.social et al leveraged SynBio tools to develop superior whole-cell catalysts enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 😱
Boosting Dibenzothiophene Biodesulfurization Through Implantation of a Refactored DBT Pathway in a Tailored Pseudomonas putida Chassis
This study engineered a Pseudomonas putida strain to efficiently remove sulfur from dibenzothiophene (DBT) by reordering and optimising the dsz operon from Rhodococcus qingshengii IGTS8, enhancing ca...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yeah, it's funny how "byproducts" are often critical products in and of themselves. For example, most of our sulfuric acid, the world's most important industrial acid, is a byproduct of oil desulfurization. As we switch off oil, sulfur and sulfuric acid will become more expensive.
June 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Since you’re talking about desulfurization this time, hopefully that should be okay
February 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM