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  • Thumbnail for Petroleum refining in the United States
    illuminating oil for miners' lamps. American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the...
    17 KB (1,392 words) - 09:49, 3 November 2024
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    Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries)...
    13 KB (1,692 words) - 09:30, 29 September 2024
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    Oil refinery (redirect from Oil refining)
    modern method of liquid extraction for refining crude oil, the Edeleanu process. This increased the refining efficiency compared to pure fractional distillation...
    105 KB (10,658 words) - 16:30, 23 November 2024
  • coals such as sub-bituminous and lignite (brown) coals, raising their calorific values. Coal refining or upgrading technologies are typically pre-combustion...
    22 KB (2,074 words) - 13:21, 16 October 2024
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    Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier (category Coal mines in Germany)
    In contrast, coal use at the three coal refining plants still in operation today is low. With a capacity of 17 million tons of raw coal per year, only...
    54 KB (7,553 words) - 19:46, 24 July 2024
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    byproducts, including coal tar, ammonia, light oils, and coal gas. Petroleum coke (petcoke) is the solid residue obtained in oil refining, which resembles...
    119 KB (12,138 words) - 20:42, 21 November 2024
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    Petroleum coke (category Oil refining)
    or petcoke, is a final carbon-rich solid material that derives from oil refining, and is one type of the group of fuels referred to as cokes. Petcoke is...
    18 KB (2,017 words) - 06:52, 23 November 2024
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    the United States in 1860. But by that time, US coal oil distillers were switching over to refining cheaper petroleum, after the discovery of abundant...
    9 KB (886 words) - 09:11, 6 July 2024
  • only a few years, the Ashland Refining Company began to show larger returns than the parent company. Ashland Refining Co. grew rapidly through both internal...
    19 KB (2,050 words) - 23:04, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Coal Field
    there is no coal but some sandstone is bituminous, and has commercial value as paving material and potentially as tar sands for liquid refining. The biggest...
    5 KB (653 words) - 12:51, 9 September 2024
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    II, but these closed by 1958, because of the rising cost of refining sulfur out of the coal mined. Agriculture replaced mining as the main economic activity...
    17 KB (1,295 words) - 00:35, 17 November 2024
  • Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system. It is produced when coal is heated strongly...
    36 KB (3,938 words) - 12:15, 4 August 2024
  • Fischer–Tropsch refining (1st ed.). Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH. ISBN 9783527326051. de Klerk, Arno; Furimsky, Edward (15 Dec 2010). Catalysis in the refining of...
    51 KB (5,798 words) - 05:27, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coal-seam fire
    A coal-seam fire is a burning of an outcrop or underground coal seam. Most coal-seam fires exhibit smouldering combustion, particularly underground coal-seam...
    40 KB (4,825 words) - 09:05, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abraham Pineo Gesner
    remarkable for the accuracy of his predictions on the future course the refining business would take. Gesner was humble about his contribution to the development...
    36 KB (4,077 words) - 17:45, 28 October 2024
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    gasification of solid feedstocks such as coal or biomass or by reforming of natural gas. Common ways for refining synthetic fuels include the Fischer–Tropsch...
    54 KB (5,798 words) - 16:49, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petroleum industry
    oil industry, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of...
    48 KB (4,718 words) - 00:54, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the petroleum industry
    has its roots in the coal and kerosene industry of the late nineteenth century. One of the earliest instances of this is the refining of paraffin from crude...
    34 KB (4,275 words) - 19:42, 25 October 2024
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    iron stove burning on coal. It was set in brick, and fed from outside the room. The part of the refinery where the actual refining took place was behind...
    39 KB (5,556 words) - 02:06, 12 November 2024
  • 000 barrels per day, accounting for around 37% of Pakistan's total oil refining capacity. Natural gas production is at a relatively high level and remaining...
    15 KB (1,850 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2024
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