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Show Oil industry faced with problems By JANE DALZIEL Chronicle Staff j The petroleum industry is facing two major crises-th ' energy crisis and the effect of pollution controls, said n Heinemann, director of catalysis research for Mobil' Oil ' seminar sponsored by the College of Mines and Mineral y15" Dr. Heinemann specified two sources of conflict in this I US'"e; ' with Pollution Control (PC). "The changes in fuel spe T'1 imposed by P C. are extreme and idealistic. They have ask i'ni remove the lead from gasoline from two and a half cc's't ' This will also reduce the octane number so to compensate f ""I1""8 ' octane number, cars must be made to run on 91 rather thq'9 octane. The performance will be very much poorer and the " I demand 20 percent more gasoline consumption." Cars1 ( The second specification .is removing the pollutants fr I machine once the fuel is burned. "This is not an easy taskT " ' main problem is that we are supposed to do it promptly "'i"" ' certain specifications. The danger in forcing car regulations t ' severe government standards is high cost," he said. "The moto I H have a more difficult time affording a car and he must be as ait'5'"'" j el to the new car devices as a chemical engineer." enlltf r The most likely pollution control device that will be added engines of the new cars of 1975-76 will be platinum after hi which are effective for 10-20,000 miles with a very low replace ' cost. Dr. Heinemann said, however, that the after-burners wIT practical only if you can inspect each car once a month. ' "It seems as though we are panicking over a serious problem h imposing laws for the solutions that are impractical and expen ' because we are not given time to research the levels of pollution"' can live with and those we can't. I make a plea to Pollution Control for time to work out methods of control in an economy which wecai afford," he said. |