Distillation columns are extensively deployed in the chemical process ... gas plants associated with petroleum refining units, the cold side of ethylene plants, and other chemical units, use MPC ...

The refinery heats crude oil until most of it evaporates and floats up a distillation column. What's left behind is a thick sludge of the heaviest hydrocarbons. Since various hydrocarbons evaporate ...

Distillation equipment and solvent recovery systems may contain several other functional components, including an adsorption column or bed, where molecules of solvent in liquid or gas form adhere to ...

As distillation lies at the heart of the petroleum and chemical industries, so at the heart of most distillation columns are the trays used to effect the separation. Topics covered by the author ...

“We are pleased to announce the successful factory acceptance test, conducted by NDMPRA, on the crude distillation column of our 80,000 barrels per day refinery expansion project in ...

In this installment of “Mining and Refining,” we’ll take a look ... because that makes it relatively easy to purify by distillation. Impure TiCl 4 is heated in a stainless steel distillation ...

For more than a century, the sprawling Phillips 66 oil refinery complex has dominated a vast tract of southern Los Angeles County. Its massive fuel storage tanks, distillation towers and sprawling ...

Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate on the actual ... Mud telemetry uses pressure waves set up in the column of drilling mud to send data back up to pressure transducers on ...

Ruia’s family business, Essar Group, acquired the Stanlow refinery from Shell in 2011 and has since invested $1 billion in ...

Lyondellbasell, which in early 2022 said it planned to close its 264,000 b/d Houston refinery at the end of the first quarter of 2025, said on Friday it will shut down some units as early as January.

In January, one of the facility's crude distillation units (CDU) and coker production train will shut, Lyondell refining chief Kim Foley told analysts on a call to discuss third-quarter results.