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Crude Oil Refinery and Refinery Products

2021
Crude oil has remained the leading source of fuel or energy in the world. It is a flammable and toxic liquid that contains a complex mixture of hydrocarbons having different molecular weights and other liquid organics. There are varieties of crude oil each with an inimitable mix of molecules that gives its physical and chemical properties and market ...
Osei-Wusu Achaw, Eric Danso-Boateng
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Virtual instruments in refineries

IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, 2005
Environmental quality monitoring must have large data acquisition and distribution systems for industrial plants. In particular, refineries must comply with government laws that enforce strict limits on product specifications and pollutant emissions, thus pushing them towards adopting increasingly efficient measurement and control policies to monitor ...
FORTUNA, Luigi   +2 more
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Renewable Resources: From Refinery to Bio-refinery

2015
Chemists are educated to consider petrochemicals as the source of both new molecules and energy. However, biological material (biomass) from living or recently living organisms, not metabolized for thousands of years into petrol and coal, offers an alternative feedstock that is elaborated in the so called bio-refineries to a variety of platform ...
Angelo Albini, Stefano Protti
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Optimizing Chevron’s Refineries

Interfaces, 2014
Chevron has developed a software modeling tool that its seven company-owned refineries use to select the most profitable raw materials, evaluate product options, optimize refinery processes, and promote efficient capital investments. The tool is a linear program with distributive recursion mathematics, which Chevron uses in operations and strategic ...
Ted Kutz   +5 more
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