A number of refineries utilize a combination of technologies to effectively measure and enhance the distillation of crude oil into isolated hydrocarbon components, in order for them to be processed ...

Currently the typical way that crude oil is processed involves a fractional distillation column, in which heated crude oil is separated into the various hydrocarbon compounds using distinct boiling ...

Syncrude Canada Ltd.’s Edmonton Research Center has developed a new cetane index (CI), using laboratory data from 306 middle distillates obtained from various pilot and commercial plants that upgrade ...

Historically speaking, optimizing the refinery has been mostly focused on final products (e.g., gasoline and diesel), slowly shifting focus to conversion and upgrading process units across the ...

Refiners will process increasingly heavier crude slates during the next 10 years. A majority will originate from the Orinoco oil belt bitumen upgraders in Venezuela and the Athabasca tar sands region ...