Talking Pictures - Oddly Beautiful Refineries
REFINED BEAUTY
Getting the oil out of the ground is only the beginning.
The common refinery might include:
- a desalter unit
- an atmospheric distillation unit
- a vacuum distillation unit
- a naphtha hydrotreater unit
- a catalytic reformer unit
- a distillate hydrotreater unit
- a fluid catalytic cracking unit
- a hydrocracker unit
- a coking unit
- an alkylation unit
- a dimerization unit
- an isomerization unit
- a steam reforming unit
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