Usually there will be two gas oil side streams, a light gas oil side stream and belowthis take off a heavy gas oil side stream…
Category: Fractions from atmospheric and vacuum distillation
This fraction is usually the first side stream of a conventional atmospheric distillation unit. It may be cut to meet a burning oil specification or…
There are usually two naphtha cuts produced from most crude. These are: Light naphtha (sometimes called light gasoline) Heavy naphtha. Both these streams are the…
In many refineries most of theC4’s and lighter are removed from the atmospheric column overhead distillate in the first column of the light end unit.…
This is not strictly a cut but consists of all the light material in the crude absorbed into the total overhead distillate from the crude…
This is the bottom product from the vacuum distillation unit. Just as in the case of the atmospheric residue it has several options for its…
In modern refinery practice the distillation of atmospheric residue is accomplished under high vacuum conditions in a specially designed tower whose internal equipment ensures a…
This is the bottom product from the atmospheric distillation of the crude oil. Most crude oils are distilled in the atmospheric crude oil tower to…