GE P&W SpecAid Finished Product Additives User Manual
Case Study
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Spec-Aid* Finished Product Additive Programs
The Low-Cost, High Performance Solution
Are your customers interested in reducing finished
product additive costs while safely meeting fuel
quality specifications?
Are your customers buying low cost/gallon additives, and still experiencing high total program
costs?
Are your customers receiving support from their
current finished product additive suppliers?
Spec-Aid Finished Product Additive programs combine field proven additives with value added support services, to provide a low cost solution to many
of today's cost and quality concerns.
Each year refiners spend millions of dollars for finished product additives to help them meet finished
fuel quality specifications. Most "traditional" additive
applications are quite inefficient resulting in unnecessary costs.
Historically, refiners have selected additives based
on: 1.) the results of laboratory tests, and 2.) product
costs in terms of "dollars per gallon (or pound)". Typically, additive suppliers that offer very low cost
products, provide little or no support. In addition,
due to today's "tough" economic conditions, most
refiners don't have personnel available to optimize
additive applications themselves. In reality, low-cost
additives alone do not equate to low program costs.
The most cost effective programs combine quality
additives with support services that assure treatment optimization. At GE Water & Process Technologies, we offer additives second to none, and we
support each application with a variety of value
added services, including: on-site monitoring and
analysis, predictive mathematical models, SPC/SQC
computer programs and analytical and Technical
Services support from our laboratories located in
The Woodlands, TX.
Spec-Aid programs are administered by GE treatment specialists, who are present in most refineries
several times each week. They are responsible for
both process applications and finished product additive applications, and fully understand how processing conditions affect finished product quality.
The following is an example of how a Spec-Aid finished product additive pro-gram has proven to be a
very low-cost solution to a refiner's costly finished
product additive problems.
A major Gulf Coast refiner was experiencing extremely high finished product additive program
costs while using low dollar per gallon additives
provided by a low service supplier. In the laboratory,
the competitor's products achieved required specifications at reasonable doses and costs. However,
actual treatment costs were several times higher
than those expected based on laboratory performance.
The difference was attributed to the lack of a support program and support technologies.
During the first six months of the Spec-Aid program,
actual treatment costs were cut in half, while all
targeted quality specifications were safely met. The
savings equate to approximately $330,000 per year
with an additive return on investment of >50%.
When other, less tangible program aspects are considered, the combined program ROI is estimated to
top 100%.
Spec-Aid programs are field proven to significantly
lower actual treatment costs. Our finished product
additives and associated service programs make
GE the low-cost supplier.
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