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The pipeline was modified in june 1997 in order to provide greater protection. For yeartodate, total domestic petroleum deliveries moved up 1. In the nearby obagi community, open flares of natural gas, a byproduct of crude oil, are. Kalechits chemistry and technology of fuels and oils volume 1, pages 331 333 1965 cite this article. Walter seigmund, wikimedia commons petroleum refining processes are those chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries also referred to as oil refineries to transform petroleum crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas lpg, gasoline or petrol. Leffler provides an overview of how the oil gets from the oil patch to the refinery. In 1982 the earliest data provided, the united states operated 301 refineries with a. Through the advancement of technical chemical and petroleum engineering, the. Physical data for distillation calculations, vaporliquid equilibria, proceeding of 27th api meeting, api division of refining, 1962, 423, 351 366. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. These 20 refineries were randomly selected from the 185 refineries. A fire and explosion at an oil refining complex owned by petronas and saudi aramco in malaysias southern state of johor killed five people and injured one. Technical data book petroleum refining by american petroleum institute. Leffler outlines the history of the petroleum industry, its milestones and accomplishments.
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