Refinery Processes
Refinery Processes – Lesson Overview
The Refinery Processes Lesson consists of the following topics:
- Generalized Refinery Plant Layout
- Generalized Refinery Processes
- Separation
- Conversion
- Treatment
- Blending
- Refinery Yield Flexibility – Feedstocks
- Refinery Yield Flexibility – Operations
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General Refinery Plant Layout
To the layperson, a refinery appears to be a strange maze of towers, pipes, tanks, and buildings. In reality, a refinery is an organized and coordinated arrangement of manufacturing processes designed to produce physical and chemical changes in crude oil.
A refinery includes control rooms, onsite and offsite process units, miles of pipeline, and vast storage tanks for crude oil and products. Every unit has a particular task, but all the processes are integrated—with technology playing a key part in the smooth operation of the refinery.
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