What You Need to Know
Refining of crude oils essentially consists of primary separation processes and secondary conversion processes. The petroleum refining process is the separation of the different hydrocarbons present in crude oil into useful fractions and the conversion of some of the hydrocarbons into products having higher quality performance.
Steps
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Petrochemical feedstock preparation (Global refining): Primary separation for downstream processing
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Aviation fuel production (United States): Initial fractionation of kerosene-range hydrocarbons
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Bitumen processing (Canada): Residual oil separation for paving materials