Petroleum refining glossary. 2013.
Coker unit — A coker or coker unit is an oil refinery processing unit that converts the residual oil from the vacuum distillation column or the atmospheric distillation column into low molecular weight hydrocarbon gases, naphtha, light and heavy gas oils, and … Wikipedia
coker — A refinery processing unit that converts the residual oil from the crude unit vacuum or atmospheric column into gas oil that can be made into light products (gasoline, jet and diesel), weak (i.e., low energy content) fuel gas and pet coke. There… … Petroleum refining glossary
flexi coker — The flexicoker adds a third vessel, a gasifier, to the fluid coker to gasify the purge coke into a weak fuel gas. Coke is made in 3 areas: purge coke from the heater, and both larger and smaller recovered coke fines from the weak gas scrubbers.… … Petroleum refining glossary
Koker — Die Koker Anlage (vereinfacht Koker oder Coker genannt), ist eine verfahrenstechnische Anlage einer Erdölraffinerie in welcher Rückstände unterschiedlichster Provenienz zu leichteren Kohlenwasserstoffen umgesetzt werden. Dabei werden die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Oil refinery — Anacortes Refinery (Tesoro), on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products,… … Wikipedia
Petroleum coke — (often abbreviated Pet coke or petcoke) is a carbonaceous solid derived from oil refinery coker units or other cracking processes.[1] Other coke has traditionally been derived from … Wikipedia
Material Point Method — The Material Point Method (MPM), is an extension of the Particle in cell (PIC) Method in computational fluid dynamics to computational solid dynamics, and is a Finite element method (FEM) based particle method. It is primarily used for multiphase … Wikipedia
petroleum refining — Introduction conversion of crude oil into useful products. History Distillation of kerosene and naphtha The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859. Prior to… … Universalium
Cracken — (engl. to crack, „spalten“), das Kracken (selten), ist ein Verfahren der Erdölverarbeitung, mit dem Kohlenwasserstoffe längerer Kettenlänge in Kohlenwasserstoffe kürzerer Kettenlänge gespalten werden. Dies ist notwendig, da der Markt mehr… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Total S.A. — Total S.A. Type Société Anonyme Traded as Euronext: FP, NYSE: … Wikipedia
