Fugitive volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the petroleum-refining industry constitute a complex issue in China. This problem has a wide range of implications that require comprehensive measures, including a series of critical policing…
Fugitive volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the petroleum-refining industry constitute a complex issue in China. This problem has a wide range of implications that require comprehensive measures, including a series of critical policing…
Fugitive volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the petroleum-refining industry constitute a complex issue in China. This problem has a wide range of implications that require comprehensive measures, including a series of critical policing…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
The petroleum refining industry in China is a major contributor to the national economy and a significant source of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The development history of China's refineries was investigated for the period 19492018, and…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
The petroleum refining industry in China is a major contributor to the national economy and a significant source of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The development history of China's refineries was investigated for the period 19492018, and…
Leak detection and localization based on acoustic leak noise has been the subject of extensive research and a number of methods have been proposed for this purpose. It is a conceptually simple, non intrusive and easy to deploy approach for monitoring…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
Fugitive volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the petroleum-refining industry constitute a complex issue in China. This problem has a wide range of implications that require comprehensive measures, including a series of critical policing…
Fugitive volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the petroleum-refining industry constitute a complex issue in China. This problem has a wide range of implications that require comprehensive measures, including a series of critical policing…
The high oxygen content of bio-oil still impedes its direct use as a transportation fuel. The vast experience of the petroleum refinery industry in fuel upgrading, however, provides an incentive to explore co-processing options. In this study, the…
Scope: 1.1 This document specifies requirements and gives recommendations on the management of integrity of a pipeline system through the life cycle, which includes design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance and abandonment. 1.2 This…
The Cleaner Production audit is a comprehensive method that aims to realize Cleaner Production throughout the life cycle industrial process of petroleum refining. The audit simultaneously measures the environmental impacts of the refinery, its…
Crude oil production in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2008 and 2016, mostly in areas that were far from existing refining and pipeline infrastructure. The production increase led to substantial discounts for oil producers…
In keeping with the world trends, ONGC Assam Asset is gradually embracing green chemistry in its chemical treatments and processes. Flowing well fluids from reservoir to group gathering stations (GGS) and their transportation to refineries through…
Heavy crude oil (HCO) is still possessing concrete challenges due to its ineffective flowing characteristics. Asphaltenes and resins are the complex fractions of heavy oil, possessing relatively high polar constituents of heteroatoms, which tend to…
Petroleum refinery has been developed for production of transportation fuel with light alkenes and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (abbreviated BTEX), but global market demands are shifting to chemicals produced from light alkenes and…
The petrochemical supply chain is a worldwide undertaking, where final products will often travel thousands of miles from oil well to gas station pump. Within the crude oil supply chain, various entities compete and attempt to maximize their profits…
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, worldwide consumption of petroleum fuels is reduced due to complete or partial lockdown in most of the countries. The abridged expenditure of liquid fuels imposes pressure on petroleum refinery industries for their…
The thermal and catalytic decomposition of waste plastics through pyrolysis is one of the best approaches of handling plastics waste and most prospective alternative of converting waste to wealth by transforming the waste plastics into lighter fuel…
We study the integrated problem of managing inventory of refined petroleum products, and their multi-modal (ships and pipeline) transportation between a refinery and the served distribution centers. It is important that the transportation decisions…
An environmentally-benign supercritical fluid route is developed to demulsify and treat highly intractable petroleum emulsions containing hazardous acidic compounds, heavy fractions, heteroatoms, and metallic impurities without using external…
To solve the problems of excessive CO2 emission and low resource utilization, which exist in the original hydrogen production process that occurs in an oil refinery, the original natural gas steam reforming process is improved by proposing a new…
Characterization of challenging and/or new energy materials (e.g., biomass/biofuels, heavy oils, and solid petroleum products) requires the generation of new and improved analytical technologies. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)…
A heterogeneous spent soda effluent generated from Tunisian petroleum refineries has been filtrated and separated in four solid fractions with a particle diameter of 160 to 100, 100 to 40, 40 to 16 and 16 to 10m and the fifth one with diameters 10m…
Abstract: The modern concepts of crude oils and refinery products as petroleum disperse systems are surveyed, as well as the related possibilities of optimizing crude oil refining processes. Through the optimal blending of components, it is possible…
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, worldwide consumption of petroleum fuels is reduced due to complete or partial lockdown in most of the countries. The abridged expenditure of liquid fuels imposes pressure on petroleum refinery industries for their…
An in-depth study was conducted to quantify and characterize VOC emissions from a petroleum refinery located in Shandong, China. The VOC emission inventory established in this study showed that storage tanks were the largest emission source,…
The petroleum refining industry in China is a major contributor to the national economy and a significant source of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The development history of China’s refineries was investigated for the period 1949–2018,…
The physical chemistry of the brine-crude oil interface is immensely complex as a result of the complexity of the crude oil itself, and access to the detailed phenomena occurring at this interface is extremely difficult. Understanding these phenomena…
Petroleum coke is often shortened as pet coke. Petroleum coke or pet coke is a product obtained from oil of all kinds during the oil refining process. Petroleum coke is a carbon-rich solid originating from petroleum refining and is obtained by…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Although the progress of high resolution mass spectrometry in the past decade has enabled the molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in water as a whole, fractionation of DOM is necessary for a comprehensive characterization due…
We analyzed, for the first time, the different fractions of metals present in the spent catalyst and changes they undergone during bioleaching and chemical leaching. Before bioleaching, Al (83.9%) was found mainly in the residual fraction of the…
Petroleum refining is a technology complex, energy- and CO2 emission-intensive industrial process, which is affected by the type and property of the crude oil. China has been the exploitation of crude oil to paraffinic most. This paper targets to…
Heavy crude oil (HCO) is still possessing concrete challenges due to its ineffective flowing characteristics. Asphaltenes and resins are the complex fractions of heavy oil, possessing relatively high polar constituents of heteroatoms, which tend to…
The Compania Espanola de Petroleos S.A.U. (Cepsa) is an integrated, energy service company that is active in the entire petroleum value chain. This chapter presents the activities of Cepsa in the field of biofuels. It discusses in detail different…
In the petroleum refining industries, the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) process is one of the most common techniques for purifying petroleum products from undesirable sulfur species to reduce SO2 emission. However, HDS is still complicated as many…
The aim of the current study was to investigate and study adsorption and nanofiltration systems for separation of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) from wastewater generated by an oil refinery in Bushehr, Iran. In the first step (previous study),…
To study the migration and variation rule of petroleum pollutants in soil and evaluate the soil condition, the field investigation is carried out in a refinery in Yunnan Province and the relevant data are collected. Then, soil sampling and leaching…
The aim of the present work is to monitor dew point corrosion of crude and vacuum distillation column overhead section in a petroleum refinery. The material of construction of overhead line pipe was carbon steel. The state of art of crude unit…
In keeping with the world trends, ONGC Assam Asset is gradually embracing green chemistry in its chemical treatments and processes. Flowing well fluids from reservoir to group gathering stations (GGS) and their transportation to refineries through…
Multiobjective optimization (MOO) techniques are of much interest with their applications to petroleum refinery catalytic processes for finding optimal solutions in the midst of conflicting objectives. The rationale behind using MOO is that if…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Assessing heavy oil composition of a green field, with an accepted level of uncertainty so it can be used for refinery capacity planning is a critical challenge. Knowledge of heavy crude oil properties is vital to understand potential adverse impact…
Crude oil heating is a significant and energy intensive process in crude oil production. Large amounts of heat are required to preheat crude before it processed in a crude distillation unit. This study aims to investigate a novel thermal design for…
Airborne Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are known to have strong and adverse impacts on human health and the environment by contributing to the formation of tropospheric ozone. VOCs can escape during various stages of crude oil processing, from…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Fractionation of crude oil in crude distillation unit (CDU) is an energy intensive process. Fractionation is carried out based on the cutpoint temperatures, i.e., the tray temperature of the CDU at which a product stream is separated. Rigorous…