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Petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Washington, United States. Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil and fuel oils.
Pipelines are used to transport oil from wells to refineries and storage facilities, and are viewed as the most cost efficient way to move oil on land. [3] Pipelines have also been found to be the safest mode of transport for oil, with one study finding an incidence rate of just 0.58 incidents per billion-ton miles. [4]
In the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), a workshop called the "Fierce Oil Workshop", was established in the city of Kaifeng to produce refined oil for the Song military as a weapon. The troops would then fill iron cans with refined oil and throw them toward the enemy troops, causing a fire – effectively the world's first "fire bomb". The ...
Winterization of oil is a process that uses a solvent and cold temperatures to separate lipids and other desired oil compounds from waxes.Winterization is a type of fractionation (also known as fractionate crystallization), the general process of separating the triglycerides found in fats and oils, using the difference in their melting points, solubility, and volatility.
This eliminates the need for storage of two products, including pressure storage for liquefied petroleum gas and storage of liquid methanol. Simplifying a gas to liquids process by combining multiple steps into fewer reactors leads to increased yield and efficiency, enabling less expensive facilities that are more easily scaled.
The refined sugars in your pantry comes from the juice of boiled sugarcane or sugar beets. In the refinement process of sugarcane, you get sugar crystals and molasses, a bitter but flavorful by ...
Singapore has sophisticated oil refineries and storage terminals, and is one of the world's three major oil refining centers and exports refined oil to the world. [34] The country has a crude refining capacity of just under 1.4 million bbl/d, according to Oil & Gas Journal.
This requires the use of the extra-virgin olive oil that you use for daily cooking. Before you ask, no—the eggs do not taste like olive oil. They taste more like eggs, without the dulling effect ...