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  2. Fuel (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Fuel is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on fuel. It was established in 1922 and published by Butterworths Scientific Publications as Fuel in Science and Practice , obtaining its current name in 1948.

  3. Volume correction factor - Wikipedia

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    These methods are often more time-consuming than entering the values into a VCF calculator; however, due to the variance in methodology and computation of constants, the tables published by the American Petroleum Institute are preferred when dealing with the purchase and sale of crude oil and residual fuels. [7]

  4. Health and environmental impact of the petroleum industry

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    Many compounds found in oil are highly toxic and can cause cancer (carcinogenic) as well as other diseases. [23] Studies in Taiwan link proximity to oil refineries to premature births. [26] Crude oil and petroleum distillates cause birth defects. [27] Benzene is present in both crude oil and gasoline and is known to cause leukaemia in humans. [28]

  5. Energy & Fuels - Wikipedia

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    Energy & Fuels is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 1987. It was established in 1987. Its publication frequency switched from bimonthly to monthly in 2009.

  6. Petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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    Upstream regards exploration and extraction of crude oil, midstream encompasses transportation and storage of crude, and downstream concerns refining crude oil into various end products. Petroleum is vital to many industries, and is necessary for the maintenance of industrial civilization in its current configuration, making it a critical ...

  7. K factor (crude oil refining) - Wikipedia

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    The K factor or characterization factor is defined from Rankine boiling temperature °R=1.8Tb[k] and relative to water density ρ at 60°F: . K(UOP) = / The K factor is a systematic way of classifying a crude oil according to its paraffinic, naphthenic, intermediate or aromatic nature. 12.5 or higher indicate a crude oil of predominantly paraffinic constituents, while 10 or lower indicate a ...

  8. Petroleum naphtha - Wikipedia

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    Petroleum naphtha is an intermediate hydrocarbon liquid stream derived from the refining of crude oil [1] [2] [3] with CAS-no 64742-48-9. [4] It is most usually desulfurized and then catalytically reformed, which rearranges or restructures the hydrocarbon molecules in the naphtha as well as breaking some of the molecules into smaller molecules to produce a high-octane component of gasoline (or ...

  9. Fluid catalytic cracking - Wikipedia

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    The feedstock to the FCC conversion process usually is heavy gas oil (HGO), which is that portion of the petroleum (crude oil) that has an initial boiling-point temperature of 340 °C (644 °F) or higher, at atmospheric pressure, and that has an average molecular weight that ranges from about 200 to 600 or higher; heavy gas oil also is known as ...