Petroleum Refining Process
General Profile Petroleum refining begins with the distillation, or fractionation, of crude…
Fluid and Flexi-Coking
Fluid coking and flexi-coking are fluid-bed processes developed from the basic principles…
Coking
Despite the development of catalytic cracking processes, coking processes have survived as…
Thermal Cracking
Cracking, in petroleum refining, the process by which heavy hydrocarbon molecules are broken up into…
Bitumen upgrading
Figure 1. This is an upgrading facility located near Fort McMurray, Alberta,…
The Manufacturing Of Lubricating Oil Process
Lube oil is extracted from crude oil, which undergoes a preliminary purification…
Catalytic Dewaxing
Although included under the separation processes, catalytic dewaxing is actually a low-severity…


