South Africa will ban 50ppm diesel from September 2023

[thehuman]

car manufactured for 500ppm will be able to run on less Sulphur, catalytic converter etc will last longer as will exhaust, as Sulphur dioxide and water makes sulphuric acid

 

[Takkies]

South Africa will ban 50ppm diesel from September 2023

South Africa published regulations that lower the sulfur content allowed in the country’s diesel fuel, which may force some oil refineries to upgrade in order to meet the standards.

Diesel grades allowed for sale may not exceed 10 parts per million, or ppm, according to a government notice on petroleum product regulations dated Aug. 31.

The rules will come into effect in September 2023.

[Bloomberg]

Does this not revive the "Clean Fuels Project"? As far as I know the ANC have been talking **** about this since 2006. It could be longer.

 

[cr@zydude]

Does this not revive the "Clean Fuels Project"? As far as I know the ANC have been talking **** about this since 2006. It could be longer.

2006 was the shift to 500ppm and 50ppm diesel from (I think) 3 000ppm.

The shift to 10ppm was meant to happen in 2017, but was delayed as refineries said that it was not possible without them receiving funding to upgrade.

 

[McGuywer]

I can run 10ppm on my 2005 xlt ford but the problem is 10ppm is like 20c more

Your issue isnt the price of diesel, your issue is the price of oil….

 

[SirSleepJunkie]

Wonder how much more this will cost per litre...

Interestingly, Sasol currently sells 10 ppm for significantly less than 50 ppm.

 

[c3n0byt3]

As I have it, only Sasol Secunda produces 10ppm and only Sasol stations sell it.

My post in the other thread about this:





A challenge is a huge understatement. Only 1 SA refinery can make diesel at that grade. It looks like SA is heading down the Australian path of closing domestic refineries and importing finished products from Asia.

Spot on.
They will look at converting to a storage and distribution industry.
If everything does actually go this way, more pipelines as well.

But I think the word "ban" is sensationalism.
I think government will try and keep production in-house as much as possible for "strategic" reasons.
10ppm is difficult to do, so they will settle on something like between 12 and 15ppm.

 

[cr@zydude]

Spot on.
They will look at converting to a storage and distribution industry.
If everything does actually go this way, more pipelines as well.

But I think the word "ban" is sensationalism.
I think government will try and keep production in-house as much as possible for "strategic" reasons.
10ppm is difficult to do, so they will settle on something like between 12 and 15ppm.

I think that 15ppm should be 'good enough', it's what the US uses.