For a crude unit handling light tight oil feedstock, a semi-preflash column can deliver significant advantages in energy saving, capacity gain and revamp.
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Reducing vacuum tower pressure
To create a better vacuum the vapour load to the ejector has to be reduced.
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Myth of high cutpoint in dry vacuum units
Accurate measures of true boiling point cutpoints are essential to correctly evaluate vacuum unit performance.
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Strategies for improved naphtha processing
To take advantage of dilbit from Alberta and light oils from shale formations, refiners must develop a strategy for processing additional naphthas and light components.
Literature
Why Do Many Crude/Vacuum Units Perform Poorly?
In many cases it’s because the original design was based more on virtual than actual reality. There is no question: computer simulations have a key role to play but it’s equally true that process design ...
Literature
Designing Deepcut Vacuum Units That Really Work
Every barrel of vacuum gas oil (VGO) you can save from being reduced to coke in the delayed coker unit is a barrel more that can go to the FCCU. That’s a good reason to ...
Literature
Processing Heavy Canadian Crude
Reducing crude oil cost is the major incentive driving crude and vacuum unit projects to handle heavy Canadian crudes. But such crudes–Albian Heavy, Christina Lake, MacKay River and others derived from oil sands–today present refiners ...
Presentations
Status of Developments in the China Refining and Petrochemical Industries
International crude oil price remains high and more crude oil is being imported to China. The petroleum and petrochemical industry and the chemical industry will bear the burnt of the “environmental protection campaign”. Paying much attention to the impacts of the emerging petroleum and petrochemical projects in Middle East on the Chinese market. The impacts of the development of diesel-powered automobiles and the possible pegging of China’s oil product price to the international price level on the Chinese product market. Read More ›
News
2013/10/14
Changling jet kerosene monthly production exceeded 36,000 tons
Changling jet kerosene monthly output has reached a historic high level, exceeding 36,000 tons in September, 8200 tons more than that of August. Changling has become one of the main jet kerosene producer in central China. Read More ›
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Improving Refining Capacity through Employing New Technologies
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