Alkylation Safety & the Production of Cleaner Gasoline
Alkylate is critical to making clean, low-emission gasoline. Hydrofluoric (HF) acid is one of two primary catalysts used to make alkylate. When it comes to using HF, refiners take major precautions and employ prevention, detection and containment strategies to keep their workforces and communities safe. Tim Shepperd, an expert in alkylation safety with more than 30 years of refining industry experience gives an on-the-ground look at HF alkylation. Using live and modeled footage, he walks through the layers of safety systems and risk mitigation protocols facilities use to protect workers, their neighbors and the environment. For more information about alkylation safety, please visit afpm.org/HF.
Additional reading: Banning Hydrofluoric Acid Won’t Eliminate Risk, But It Will Threaten Fuel Supplies
Landscaping Enhancement Project Underway
In the second quarter of 2024, the Torrance Refinery initiated a large-scale landscaping improvement project with community input. This project focuses on enhancing the refinery’s perimeter by removing dead, unhealthy, and/or diseased trees, shrubs, and other vegetation. Consulting [...]
North High School baseball field improvements
We are proud to support our neighbor and partner North High School with their safety initiatives and urban agriculture class. They thanked us with this fabulous video made by a student! Check it out on their Facebook page. [...]
Torrance Refining Company sponsors 31st Annual YMCA Kid’s Classic Golf Tournament
Torrance Refining was proud to be the presenting sponsor of the Torrance-South Bay YMCA 31st Annual Kid’s Classic Golf Tournament. A total of 156 golfers participated to support the Y’s youth programs and send Torrance kids to camp this [...]
Torrance Unified School District Cardboard Regatta
Over 230 girls from Torrance Unified School District competed to create the best vessel to successfully float across a swimming pool using only cardboard, duct tape and engineering ingenuity! Torrance Refining Company proudly presented this fun, splashy event to [...]
Team supports Relay for Life of Torrance
Thank You to our Torrance Refinery employees, friends, and family who walked with us in partnership with our community nonprofit Relay For Life of Torrance in Downtown Torrance. Together, our support of lives touched by this disease is meaningful, [...]
Torrance Refining Company sponsors 3rd annual TUSD Invention Convention
More than 1500 student inventors filled El Camino College for the 2024 Southern California State Invention Convention, presented by Torrance Refining Company, in partnership with Torrance Unified School District. The event showcased young inventors from all over Southern California [...]