Could you feed the crude to the coker fractionator, that way only the heavy ends would go to the coker. That would likely not mess up the coke too much. You might already have a slop line to the coker fractionator to keep cracked slop out of the crude unit.
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Thanks Steve for the gas leak estimate. I listened to the broadcast again and the speaker did not say per hour or per day, just 25-30 cubic tons. The speaker was Dr. Simon Boxall, an oceanographer and oil pollution expert. I don't think he was speaking on behalf of Total.
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Conversion could be confusing some. A spokesman from Southampton for Total, commenting on the current gas leak in the North Sea yesterday on CBC radio, estimated the gas leak at 50 cubic tons. I don't think he mentioned per hour or per day. Thank God time isn't going SI.
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Good question SeanB. I have seen blanket or balance gas on a charge drum but never on a reboiler. Maybe the reboiler is in intermittent operation?
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Your weekly smile, this week, is provided by Time Magazine, US March 19, 2012 edition. While explaining refining 3-2-1, in his article on page 12 entitled "Stumped at the Pump", Bill Saporito explains as follows: "The 3-2-1 means that out of one barrel of oil you get three barrels of gasoline...
It may also be a way of cautioning the designer that an unusually high fouling factor should be included in the design.
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A good summary from David 4 Mar 12 1:31. In addition, I have noticed that some, perhaps many, MBAs in senior management were pre-selected by the company as management material and sent out for the MBA or other "charm school" course. Therefore the presence of MBAs among management can be a...
Determine the IRR of your project and compare it to the Fed's cost of borrowing. The IRR for your project should exceed the interest paid on new or recent debt for your project to be economically attractive.
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I remember working on a very efficient use of wind power as an automotive driver back in 1972. Perhaps its time has come again. See http://www.google.ca/search?q=meccano+land+yacht&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It certainly bypasses some of the energy...
Electric cars will have many unintended consequences. Quote from Two and Half Men: "I was doing OK until her husband pulled into the driveway in his freakin Prius".
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cranky108 noted "If the price goes up, consumption will go down". This has certainly not been true for crude over the last 15 years as the link "http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2008/05/354-oil-supply-vs-prices.html" should show. Perhaps he meant consumption will not go up so much. I suppose...
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about early refining. "In the 19th century, refineries in the U.S. processed crude oil primarily to recover the kerosene. There was no market for the more volatile fraction, including gasoline, which was considered waste and was often dumped directly into the...
cranky108 makes a very good point about co-products. While making whale oil substitute out of crude oil, no-one wanted the naphtha cut.
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