Tag: vacuum residue
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Visbreaking Process in Petroleum Refinery
A Visbreaking (means viscosity breaking) unit is a processing unit in a petroleum refinery that reduces the viscosity of a refinery residue and produces more valuable petroleum products. The Visbreaking...
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Bitumen Production Processes in Petroleum Refinery
Bitumen or Asphalt is a black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation of crude oil. Petroleum Bitumen or Asphalt is a sticky, semi-solid, viscous petroleum,...
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Thermal Cracking Process in Oil Refinery
Thermal cracking is the process in which heavy residue hydrocarbons are decomposed into lower molecule higher value hydrocarbon products, under severe thermal conditions in the absence of the catalyst. It...
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Operation of Ebullated-bed Reactor for Residue hydrocracking
Ebullated bed reactor (EBR) in oil refineries is a type of fluidized bed reactor that utilizes ebullition, or bubbling, to achieve appropriate mixing of reactants and catalysts for residue hydroprocessing....
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Fuel Oil Blending Process in Oil Refinery
Residual fuel oil is the third most important petroleum product after gasoline and diesel. Mostly, the furnace oils or bunker fuel oil are the by-products of refineries, which are blended...
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Vacuum Distillation Unit in Oil Refinery
The vacuum distillation unit is designed to process the reduced crude from the atmospheric crude distillation tower bottom in the presence of a vacuum. The Vacuum Distillation Unit separates the...