How an Oil Refinery Works
by Brian Potter · Construction Physics
A working tour of refinery process units, tracing crude classification, atmospheric distillation, catalytic cracking, reforming and hydrotreating through a real plant, and closing on the Nelson Complexity Index that ranks how much upgrading a refinery can do.
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