Amoco Oil Refinery

This exact scenario transpired at a 3000-psi white oil hydrotreater reactor I had designed for the Amoco Oil Refinery in Whiting, Indiana. All seven catalyst beds were destroyed, along with my patented reactor interbed quench distributors. The place to locate the pressure relief valves is not at the top, but at the bottom, below the final catalyst bed support of the reactor. 

FIGURE 6.7 Steps in oil shale retorting are shown. Oil shale is erushed and then heated in a retort to drive off the oil that is trapped in the roek. Any oil left behind, as well as partieulates returned to the process as the reeovered oil is processed, is burned to provide heat for the retorting. The oil that is recovered from the shale is chemically treated to produce synthetic crude for further processing in conventional refineries. Courtesy, Amoco Oil Company. 

Figure 7.14 Storage tanks for crude oil can be huge. These handle 750,000 barrels, about the size of one oil tanker and perhaps two days supply for the oil refinery. A floating, expandable top enables minimal pressure variation with temperature. (Courtesy of BP Amoco, Texas City, TX)...

How many of you are hunters How many of you enjoy killing the innocent creatures of the forest Actually, I used to go hunting once a year in Casper, Wyoming. At that time, I was working for Amoco Oil. So, once a year at the start of the antelope season, I found an excuse to visit Amoco s refinery in Casper. 

The 1984 AMOCO Oil hardcover book is an accumulation of nine individual, previously published booklets. The booklets are each chapters in the 1984 edition with titles including The Hazards of Water, The Hazards of Air, Safe Furnace Firing, Safe Ups and Downs for Refinery Units, The Hazards of Steam, and other fundamentals needed by operators, supervisors, and engineers. 

Figure 13.1 Water-induced pressure surge incident in a refinery coker combination tower. (Reprinted with permission of copyright owner from the Booklet "Hazards of Water," copyright 1984, Amoco Oil Company ...

Materials. The feedstock was white oil spiked with dlbenzothiophene. The white oil was obtained from the Whiting refinery of Amoco Oil Company. The dlbenzothiophene (Eastman Chemicals) and the hydrogen (Liquid Carbonic) were used as received. 

The mechanical seal of a centrifugal pump in hydrocarbon service is the weak point for any process unit. In 1974, when 1 was the operating superintendent of the Amoco Oil Sulfuric Acid Alkylation Plant in Texas City, 1 discovered two truths about refinery operations ... 

Overfilling a flare K.O. drum is a serious matter. Liquid hydrocarbons may erupt from the flare like a giant flame-thrower. My secretary ran out of the Good Hope Refinery without her shoes when our flare stack overflowed. Burning liquid butane erupting from the Amoco Oil flare in Whiting, Indiana, was reported as a missile laimch by a spy satellite. 

Spent caustic (3800 tons/year) is sent off-site for recovery of remaining caustic value and naphthenic acids. Most catalysts are recycled for recovery of additional activity or metals. Spent cracking catalyst (6(K) tons/year) is sent to Amoco s Whiting, Indiana, refinery for use as equilibrium catalyst. Spent ultraforming catalyst is returned to metals reclaimers to recover platinum for reuse in new catalyst. Spent desulfurization catalyst and polymer catalyst are nonhazardous and are buried in an on-site landfill. Sludges from the oil/water separator are a listed hazardous waste under RCRA regulations. They are combined with other solid wastes, such... 

Fig, 8-13, Unhoused plant except for small control building on right—Amoco Refinery, Yorktown, Va. (Courtesy of The M. W. Kellogg Co. and American Oil Co.)... 

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