Tag: crude oil
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Types and Configurations of Petroleum Oil Refineries
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial plant that transforms crude oil into useful petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet...
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Crude Oil Desalting Process
The crude oil desalting process extracts salts from a crude oil hydrocarbon stream by mixing the stream with a small amount of freshwater forming a water-in-oil emulsion. The resulting emulsion...
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Working of Crude Oil Distillation Column
The crude distillation unit (CDU) is the first processing unit in an oil refinery. In CDU main equipment is the crude oil fractional distillation column that separates the crude oil...
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Types of Crude Oil
What is crude oil? Crude oil is a complex mixture of various hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon compounds. It exists in numerous forms with distinct characteristics and is categorized based upon its...
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Composition of Crude Oil
Crude oil is a naturally occurring unrefined liquid petroleum, a mixture of hydrocarbons (Compounds mainly of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon) that is found accumulated underground in the earth’s crust. Various types...