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    Estudio de prefactibilidad para el coprocesamiento de aceite de palma en la refinería de Cartagena
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2019) Moreno, Sebastian; Uribe de Correa, Beatriz Amparo; Salazar Gómez, Francisco Javier
    Because of the growing world energy demand, high volatility in the international oil prices and international agreements to reduce the greenhouse emissions coprocessing renewables feedstocks in the actual refineries represents an alternative to partially replace fossil fuels for diesel engines. In this manner, The aim of this project is to perform a pre-feasibility analysis of the coprocessing of palm vegetable oil to produce fuels in the Cartagena’s Refinery. In order to evaluate the prefeasibility of coprocessing of vegetable feedstocks in the Cartagena’s Refinery a market, an environment, a technical, a legal and a financial assessments will be carried out. In addition, the construction of the projected income statements is divided in two cases: the first one in named as “co-processing case” where the product is considered such as regular low sulfur diesel with international price and the second one the “biodiesel case”, which is considered that the HVO receives recognition from the incentive ministry given to biodiesel producers in Colombia. At the end of this document, a sensitivity analysis reveals that the net present value (NPV) of the co-processing vegetable feedstocks strongly depend on the price difference between the raw material (crude palm oil) and products (ULSD or Biodiesel). This study shows that minimum difference must be USD26 per barrel in order to consider the project feasible. Consequently, the main conclusion of this study is that the co-processing of vegetable palm oil (VO) in the Cartagena’s refinery for the ULSD production is a not profitable case in the actual international prices scenario (USD61 per barrel of VO, USD65 per barrel of ULSD). However, this study reveals that the biodiesel producers have price benefits in Colombia where the price is USD124 per barrel of VO produced. This makes the co – processing of vegetable oil profitable suggesting a legal and political work coming up.