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  • Crude oil desalter/Definition
    A device used in petroleum refineries to remove inorganic salts, water and sediment from the incoming petroleum c
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  • Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants/Definition
    ...streams produced in the hydrocarbon processing industries (i.e., petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants and natural gas processing plants).
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  • Piping (engineering)/Definition
    ...rom one location to another within industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, chemical and petrochemical manufacturing, natural gas processing, electric
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  • Hydrocracking/Definition
    A [[Catalyst|catalytic]] chemical process used in petroleum refineries for converting the high-boiling constituent hydrocarbons in petroleum crude
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  • Visbreaking/Definition
    A chemical engineering process unit used in petroleum refineries that reduces the viscosity of the residual oil from the refinery's atmosphe
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  • Flare stack/Definition
    A tall vertical vent pipe used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[chemical plant]]s and [[petrochemical plant]]s, oil and gas drilling s
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  • Process flow diagram/Definition
    ...in the [[process engineering]] of [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[Natural gas processing|natural gas processing plants]], [[Petrochemica
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  • Unit (chemical engineering)/Definition
    ...etrochemical plants]], as well as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] and [[Natural gas processing|natural gas processing plant]]s, are commonl
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  • Natural gas/Related Articles
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  • Natural gas processing/Related Articles
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  • Upstream, midstream and downstream (petroleum industry)/Related Articles
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  • Petroleum crude oil/Related Articles
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  • Amine/Related Articles
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  • API oil-water separator
    ...d solids from the [[wastewater]] [[effluents]] of [[Oil refinery|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[Natural gas processing|natu ...d on the specific gravity difference between oil and water. However, many refineries now use plastic parallel plate packing to enhance the gravity separation.<r
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  • Sulfur dioxide/Related Articles
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  • Upstream, midstream and downstream (petroleum industry)
    The downstream sector includes [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Gary, J.H. and Handwerk, G.E.|title=Petroleum Ref ...etric tons of sulfur produced worldwide in 2005 was byproduct sulphur from refineries and natural gas processing plants.<ref>[http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/p
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  • Peru/Related Articles
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  • Glucose/Related Articles
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  • Nickel/Related Articles
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  • Petroleum refining processes
    ...and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform [[Petroleum crude oil|crude oil]] into useful products such a ...sired products and economic considerations. There are most probably no two refineries that are identical in every respect.
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  • Petroleum refining processes/Citable Version
    ...and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform [[crude oil]] into useful products such as [[liquefied petrol ...sired products and economic considerations. There are most probably no two refineries that are identical in every respect.
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  • B-24 Liberator (bomber)
    An effort to knock out the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, which provided a third of Nazi oil, cost 54 out of 177
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  • Crude oil desalter
    ...ineries now use electrostatic desalters. However, there may still be a few refineries employing the older, less efficient method that utilizes chemicals and sett ==Contaminants in crude oil as received by refineries==
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  • Chlorine/Related Articles
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  • Petroleum naphtha/Citable Version
    ...own unique composition or [[assay]]. There are also hundreds of petroleum refineries worldwide and each of them is designed to process either a specific crude o ...ls only with naphthas produced by the processing of crude oil in petroleum refineries.
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  • Petroleum naphtha
    ...own unique composition or [[assay]]. There are also hundreds of petroleum refineries worldwide and each of them is designed to process either a specific crude o ...ls only with naphthas produced by the processing of crude oil in petroleum refineries.
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  • Amine gas treating
    ...is a common process unit used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas processing]] plants and other in Processes within petroleum refineries or natural gas processing plants that remove hydrogen sulfide and/or [[merc
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  • Amine gas treating/Citable Version
    ...is a common process unit used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas processing]] plants and other in Processes within petroleum refineries or natural gas processing plants that remove hydrogen sulfide and/or [[merc
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  • Petroleum refining processes/Gallery
    |+'''Petroleum refineries and refinery units'''
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  • Acid gas
    Processes within oil refineries or natural gas processing plants that remove mercaptans and/or hydrogen sul
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  • Carbon dioxide/Related Articles
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  • Sour gas
    Processes within petroleum refineries or [[natural gas processing]] plants that remove [[mercaptans]] and/or hyd
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  • Refineries
    '''Refineries''' are industrial manufacturing facilities composed of a group of [[chemica ==Types of refineries==
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  • Petrochemicals
    ...m naphtha|Naphtha]] obtained from [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]. ...a whole referred to as ''[[BTX]]'' and primarily obtained from petroleum refineries by extraction from the reformate produced in [[Catalytic reforming|catalyti
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  • Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants
    ...on]] processing industries (i.e., [[petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical|petrochemical plants]] and [[natural gas processing]] pl
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  • Process flow diagram
    ...rs]] in the [[process design]] of [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[Natural gas processing|natural gas processing plants]], [[Petrochemica ...lytic reforming unit]] which is widely used in most, if not all, petroleum refineries. It does not include all of the above listed process flow diagram component
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  • Flare stack
    ...a tall vertical vent pipe used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical plant]]s, [[chemical plant]]s and [[Natural gas processi In industrial plants such as petroleum refineries, petrochemical or other chemical plants, and natural gas processing plants,
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  • Merox
    ...in the Merox treated fuels or removed and used elsewhere in the petroleum refineries. Processes within oil refineries or natural gas processing plants that remove mercaptans and/or [[hydrogen s
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  • AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors
    ...ollutant emissions from the large wet [[cooling tower]]s in [[Oil refinery|refineries]] and from the oil/water separators used in treating refinery [[wastewater] ...at report includes the emission factors developed by the EPA for petroleum refineries and for the synthetic organic chemical industry (SOCMI).
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  • Athabasca Oil Sands
    ...nto [[synthetic crude]] oil for shipment to [[Petroleum refining processes|refineries]] in Canada and the United States, though in Albian's case, the upgrader is ...hundred people whose main economic activities included fur trapping and [[Refineries|salt mining]]. Since the [[energy crisis]] of the 1970s, Fort McMurray has
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  • Visbreaking
    ...gineering]] process unit used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] that reduces the [[viscosity]] of the residual oil from the refinery's [[ ...'pitch'' and is routed to the refinery's fuel oil blending system. In some refineries, visbreaker tar is routed to a [[delayed coker]] for the production of cert
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  • Catalytic reforming/Citable Version
    ...alytic]] chemical process used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] to convert [[Petroleum naphtha|naphtha]]s, typically having low [[Octane ...reaction chemistry of the catalytic reforming process as used in petroleum refineries, the typical naphthas used as catalytic reforming feedstocks will be discus
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  • Catalytic reforming
    ...alytic]] chemical process used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] to convert [[Petroleum naphtha|naphtha]]s, typically having low [[Octane ...reaction chemistry of the catalytic reforming process as used in petroleum refineries, the typical naphthas used as catalytic reforming feedstocks will be discus
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  • Warren K. Lewis
    ...employed more sophisticated distillation techniques than used in petroleum refineries. Existing patents on separating [[Petroleum crude oil|petroleum]] fractions ...ng]] of petroleum so as to increase the yield of [[gasoline]] in petroleum refineries. When the use of fixed beds of [[catalyst]]s for cracking petroleum evolved
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  • Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion
    ...the process [[furnace]]s in large [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, and [[incinerator]]s burn ver
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  • Merox/Citable Version
    ...Oil Products]] (UOP) and used in [[Petroleum refining processes| petroleum refineries]] and [[natural gas processing]] plants to remove mercaptans from [[LPG]], Processes within oil refineries or natural gas processing plants that remove mercaptans and/or [[hydrogen s
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  • Asphalt (paving)
    ...1900s, when [[natural gas]] replaced ''town gas'', asphalt from petroleum refineries dominated the asphalt paving market from that point on.
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  • Piping (engineering)
    ...hin industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[chemical]] and [[petrochemical]] manufacturing, [[natural gas processi
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  • Delayed coking
    ...] [[unit process]]es used in many [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]. The main objective of the delayed coking unit is to convert low value re ...pending the composition of the feedstock and the operating variables. Many refineries world-wide produce as much as 2,000 to 3,000 tons per day of petroleum coke
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  • Hydrocracking
    ...alytic]] chemical process used in [[petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] for converting the [[Boiling point|high-boiling]] constituent [[hydrocarb ...ce either gasoline, jet fuel or diesel oil made it desirable for petroleum refineries to install hydrocrackers.
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  • Condensation (phase transition)
    ...as those in [[chemical plant]]s, [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas processing]] and [[alcohol]] [[D
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  • South Coast Air Quality Management District
    ...to businesses ranging from large [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] and [[power plant]]s to [[Gasoline|gasoline]] fueling stations and [[dry
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  • Hydrodesulfurization
    ...ing [[hydrogen sulphide]] gas. In [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], the hydrogen sulfide gas is then subsequently converted into byproduct e ...below have been commercialized. Currently, virtually all of the petroleum refineries world-wide have one or more HDS units.
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  • Hydrodesulfurization/Citable Version
    ...ing [[hydrogen sulphide]] gas. In [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], the hydrogen sulfide gas is then subsequently converted into byproduct e ...below have been commercialized. Currently, virtually all of the petroleum refineries world-wide have one or more HDS units.
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  • Dissolved air flotation
    ...he industrial wastewater [[effluent]]s from [[Petroleum refinery|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[Natural gas processing|natu
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  • Reboiler
    ...in the distilling of crude oil in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]) as reboilers for the heating of large distillation columns. A pump is r
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  • Asphalt (petroleum)
    ...1900s, when [[natural gas]] replaced ''town gas'', asphalt from petroleum refineries dominated the asphalt paving market from that point on. By the early 1990s, ...ram|block flow diagram]] of how petroleum asphalt is produced in petroleum refineries.}}
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  • Reflux (distillation)
    ...cale distillation columns such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, and [[natural gas processing]
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  • Deaerator
    ...rge industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] may use whatever low-pressure steam that is available.
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  • Relative volatility/Citable Version
    ...distillation columns for distilling multi-component mixtures in petroleum refineries, [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[natural gas processing]] plan
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  • Industrial cooling tower
    ...in industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[Natural gas processing|na Petroleum refineries also have very large cooling tower systems. A typical large refinery proces
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  • Industrial cooling tower/Citable Version
    ...in industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[Natural gas processing|na Petroleum refineries also have very large cooling tower systems. A typical large refinery proces
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  • Relative volatility
    ...distillation columns for distilling multi-component mixtures in petroleum refineries, [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, [[natural gas processing]] plan
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  • Edwin Richard Gilliland
    ...alytic cracking]] process used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] to produce a [[Gasoline#Octane rating|high-octane]] component of [[gasoli
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  • World War II, air war, Allied offensive counter-air campaign
    ...mbers to simultaneously strangle Germany's supply system, burn out its oil refineries, and destroy its warplanes. Mission accomplished, Ike returned the bombers
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  • Flash evaporation/Citable Version
    ...iquids is very widely utilized in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s and [[natural gas processing]]
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  • Flash evaporation
    ...iquids is very widely utilized in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s and [[natural gas processing]]
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  • Chemical plant
    ...plant]]s, [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] or other [[refineries]], [[petrochemical|petrochemical plants]], [[natural gas processing]] and b ...operation is more efficient in many large scale operations like petroleum refineries. It is possible for some units to operate continuously and others be in bat
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  • Induced gas flotation
    ...treating the wastewater effluents from [[Petroleum refining processes|oil refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]]s, and [[Natural gas processing|
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  • Gas compressor
    ...ary service in industries such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[chemical plant|chemical]] and [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas * In petroleum refineries, natural gas processing plants, petrochemical and chemical plants, and simi
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  • Steam
    A great many processes in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[Natural gas processing|natural gas processing plants]], [[Petrochemica * The heat source for [[evaporation]] processes in [[refineries|sugar refining]] and in [[water desalination]] processes.
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  • Surface condenser
    * Large steam turbines in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] and [[petrochemical]] plants
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  • Fluid catalytic cracking
    ...ortant conversion process used in [[petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]. It is widely used to convert the high-boiling [[hydrocarbon]] fractions In effect, refineries use fluid catalytic cracking to correct the imbalance between the market de
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  • Continuous distillation
    ...column (which is the case with crude oil distillation towers in petroleum refineries, shown in Figure 4). In those cases, if the overhead distillate product is ...l fractionation'') is the first processing unit in virtually all petroleum refineries worldwide. It is a somewhat unique example of distillation because it does
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  • Catalysis
    ...cing high-quality [[gasoline]] in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] is subject to irreversible deactivation by [[sulphur]], [[nitrogen]] and ...h depend on the use of small amounts of catalysts in the world’s petroleum refineries.<ref>[http://www.nacatsoc.org/what.asp What is Catalysis or Catalysis, So w
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  • Saudi Arabia
    ...di Arabian Marketing and Refining Company (Samarec) would improve domestic refineries and meet a growing number of environmental standards
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  • Gasoline/Citable Version
    ...duced from petroleum crude oil in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]. For a number of reasons it is very difficult to quantify the amount of g * There are also hundreds of crude oil refineries worldwide and each of them is designed to process a specific crude oil or a
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  • Gasoline
    ...duced from petroleum crude oil in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]]. For a number of reasons it is very difficult to quantify the amount of g * There are also hundreds of crude oil refineries worldwide and each of them is designed to process a specific crude oil or a
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  • Clean Air Act (U.S.)
    ...nology|stationary sources]] (like [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical]] manufacturing plants, [[power plant]]
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  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
    ...plants so one raid would not prove fatal.) An effort to knock out the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, which provided a third of Nazi oil, cost 54 out of 177 ...mbers to simultaneously strangle Germany's supply system, burn out its oil refineries, and destroy its warplanes. Mission accomplished, Ike returned the bombers
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  • Large-scale trickle filters
    ...iodegradable wastewaters, such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, paper mills and large food processing plants.
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  • Chemical engineering/Citable Version
    ...ering will not only encompass design work at large scales (e.g., petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants) but will also encompass work at very small scales
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  • Claus process
    ...ulfide extracted from by-product gases by an absorption process, petroleum refineries also derive hydrogen sulfide from the [[steam distillation]] of [[wastewate
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  • Chemical engineering
    ...ering will not only encompass design work at large scales (e.g., petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants) but will also encompass work at very small scales
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  • Computer simulation
    ...design]] of [[chemical plant]]s, [[petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] and [[natural gas processing|natural gas processing plants]].
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  • Kuwait
    ...roops performed many acts of sabatoge, destroying oil pumping stations and refineries and uncapping and setting on fire thousands of Kuwaiti oil wells. Millions
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  • Steam generator
    ...sulfur recovery plants]] used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] are fire-tube boilers.</ref> In that range, fire-tube boilers offer low c Petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants and other process plants often have many waste heat s
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  • Steam generator/Citable Version
    ...sulfur recovery plants]] used in [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] are fire-tube boilers.</ref> In that range, fire-tube boilers offer low c Petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants and other process plants often have many waste heat s
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  • Accidental release source terms/Citable Version
    ...at industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas processing]] plants, oil and [[g
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  • Accidental release source terms
    ...at industrial facilities such as [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] plants, [[natural gas processing]] plants, oil and [[g
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  • Luftwaffe
    ...The main way to stop the Luftwaffe was to cut off its gasoline by bombing refineries and synthetic oil plants, and for the Soviets to capture the Romanian oil f ...mbers to simultaneously strangle Germany's supply system, burn out its oil refineries, and destroy its warplanes. Mission accomplished, Ike returned the bombers
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  • Strategic air warfare against Japan
    *oil refineries, 83%
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  • Vapor-compression refrigeration
    ...mmercial and industrial services. [[Petroleum refining processes|Petroleum refineries]], [[petrochemical]] and [[chemical plant]] processing plants, and [[natura
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  • Centers of gravity (military)
    ...To achieve the indirect outcome, it might be necessary to attack multiple refineries, pipelines, or other redundant ways of providing the critical resource.
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  • Coal
    ...a higher carbon content.<ref>Many [[Petroleum refining processes|petroleum refineries]] produce a similar product, called ''petroleum coke'', by a process known
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  • Nova Scotia, history
    ...'s multiple businesses by merging the cordage firms and [[Refineries|sugar refineries]] and then creating the steel industry in Nova Scotia. In order to develop
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