Humble Oil and Refining

L. E. Hatch, EthylA.lcohol Enjay Chemical Co., a Division of Humble Oil and Refining Co., New York, 1962. 

The control center(s) and the electrical switching room are always located in an enclosed building. It is important that both of these services be maintained so that the plant can be shut down in an orderly manner in the case of an emergency. Therefore these buildings must be built so that should an external explosion occur the room will not collapse and destroy the control center and switching center. To avoid this, either the structure must have 3-4 ft (1-1.2 m) thick walls, or the roof must be supported independently of the walls. The Humble Oil and Refining Co. has specified that the building withstand a 400 psf (2,000 kg / m2) external explosive force.2... 

I wish to thank Drs. J. L. Franklin and F. H. Field of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, and Dr. R. B. Mesrobian for letting me see, and make use of, their work before publication and Dr. D. C. Pepper for his helpful criticism of this work. 

The authors acknowledge with thanks the generosity of the Humble Oil and Refining Co. in allowing use of information on its aromatic production and in granting time for preparation of this paper. 

Determined spectrographically from measurements made in these laboratories Humble Oil and Refining Co., Baytown, Tex. Socony-Vacuum Laboratories, Paulsboro, N. J. Standard Oil Development Co., Elizabeth, N. J. Sun Oil Co., Norwood, Pa. 

This study was performed in the Petroleum Processing Laboratories, Chemical Engineering Department, Louisiana State University. The project was sponsored by Esso Research and Engineering Co. The catalyst used was prepared by the Esso Research Laboratories, Humble Oil and Refining Co., Baton Rouge, La., from mordenite crystals obtained from the Norton Co. Ammonium mordenite was impregnated with 0.5% of palladium, pilled, crushed, sized, and heated to 1000 °F in the presence of air to give Pd on H-mordenite catalyst. The properties of this catalyst are shown in Table I. 

Received February 15, 1973. The H-Oil process was developed by Cities Service Research and Development Co. and Hydrocarbon Research Inc. Units have been licensed to the Kuwait National Petroleum Co., Humble Oil and Refining Co., Petroleos Mexicanos, and Cities Service Oil Co. 

P.O. Box 431, Kingsport, Tenn. 37662 EGA-Chemie KG, Steinheim, Germany Engelhard Industries, Inc., 113 Astor St., Newark, N. J. 07114 Enjay Chemical Company, A Division of Humble Oil and Refining Co., 60 West 49th St., New York, N.Y. 10020 Ethyl Corp., 100 Park Ave., New York,... 

The propane used was a commercially available feed supplied by Pyrofax Corp. The light kerosene, supplied by Universal Oil Products Co., had been partially desulfurized. The light fuel naphtha was obtained from Industrial Solvents Corp. The jet fuel was obtained from Humble Oil and Refining Co. Properties of the commercial feeds are given in Table I. 

In the last analysis, the choice of topics has been dictated by my own taste and experience as well as by the needs of many hundreds of chemists and chemical engineers on the campuses of Princeton, Berkeley and Stanford to whom a course now crystallized in this book has been presented over the past eight years at the undergraduate and graduate level. The material has also been tried in accelerated courses of one or two weeks at Humble Oil and Refining Company, Esso Research and Engineering Company and The Chemstrand Corporation. 

By feeding the extraction plant with naphthas which are rich in particular aromatic hydrocarbons, those produced by hydroforming for example, high purity of the finished aromatic product is possible. At the Baytown refinery of the Humble Oil and Refining Co., nitration-grade toluene and other high-purity aromatic products are made by these methods, although the product from the extraction plant must be further treated with sulfuric acid and caustic to remove small amounts of olefins and diolefins (72). 

This technique was developed under the name Phenex (Humble Oil and Refining Co., Baton Rouge) and was designed to deal with catalytic cracking condensates which only contain from 400 to 800 mgT of phenols, radier than spent caustic. 

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