FHRPineBend.com - The Refinery: Products Details

FHR's Blue Planet Gas
Flint Hills Resources Diesel
Koch's Premium Diesel
Flint Hills Resources Gasoline

Gasoline
Gasoline is used in most cars and all piston-engine airplanes. FHR makes all grades of gasoline - regular, mid-grade, premium, and aviation grades, according to how smoothly it burns in an engine. Gasoline is actually a blend of 8 or 10 different streams, which are blended by a computer using on-line analysis, to be sure that the gasoline meets specifications for octane, vapor pressure, sulfur level, color and other requirements. FHR provides gasoline blended with ethanol in Minnesota, in accordance with state law, and provides reformulated gasoline (also blended with ethanol) to the Milwaukee area, which helps reduce smog or ground-level ozone.

FHR makes Blue Planet� gasoline, which reduces tail pipe emissions in existing cars and meets one of EPA's low sulfur specifications 6 years prior to EPA's deadline. Low sulfur gasoline will enable automobile manufacturers to produce the next generation of cars that will emit 75 - 90% less than today's vehicles.

Diesel Fuel
Diesel fuel is used in all trains, most ships and heavy duty trucks. Some automobiles and light duty trucks are also powered by diesel fuel. Like gasoline, diesel fuel is a blend of 3 or 4 components that are blended to meet specifications for cetane (a measurement of how smoothly the fuel burns in the engine, similar to octane for gasoline), sulfur and other limits.

FHR makes a number of premium diesel fuels, including Arctic & Performance Gold Diesels.

Jet Fuel
Jet airplanes burn jet fuel, a blend similar to kerosene, but more highly refined to meet airplane and FAA specifications. FHR has a pipeline that delivers jet fuel directly from the refinery to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport.

Asphalt
Asphalt is used to pave streets, highways and parking lots, and to make roofing, waterproofing and insulating materials. Another Koch Company, Koch Materials makes both paving grade asphalt and roofing asphalt at the Pine Bend refinery.

Other Byproducts
FHR also sells byproducts from its refining process, including:

Sulfur - used for fertilizer, pharmaceuticals and production of sulfuric acid
Petroleum coke - burned for generation of electrical power at coal-fired power plants
Carbon dioxide - used for freezing food products