So the next question is: Is it worth it from a business sense to further refine and clean up gasoline? Like does the expense of doing so result in a significant improvement?
It can... you just have to figure out the "goes ins" and "comes outs" of the process and see if you can sell your product for enough ($/gal) to make a profit.
Just drunkenly thinking: - Goes In: energy to fire the column (reboiler) - Goes In: water (or other) to cool the top products - Goes In: stock gasoline you buy - Comes Out: Refined top products (the stuff you want to sell I think) - Comes Out: Waste (the shit you just stripped out... who do you pay to take it away?)
can probably parse this more coherently and with things I am missing.
No, pretty much every industrial process is scaled up to the point you'll never be able to come close to competing on an individual level. I think lumber milling is probably the most accessible industrial process and it's gonna take a couple million at least just for the equipment.
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