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Maximum Allowable Working Pressure -As defined in the construction codes for pressure vessels, the maximum allowable working pressure depends on the type of material, its thickness, and the service conditions set as the basis for design. The vessel or equipment may not be operated above this pressure, or its equivalent stress at any other metal, temperature. However, ANSI B31.3, Petroleum Refinery Piping Code, permits variations above the maximum allowable working pressure, as follows ... 

Table 3.3 gives the total uses of hydrogen. Ammonia production is by far the most important application, followed by methanol manufacture. Hydrogenations in petroleum refineries are an important use. Many other industries utilize hydrogen. Miscellaneous uses include hydrogenation of fats and oils in the food industry, reduction of the oxides of metals to the free metals, pure hydrogen chloride manufacture, and liquid hydrogen as rocket fuel. 

The remainder of Chapter 5 is organized as follows. In Section 5.2, we explain the problem statement of the petroleum refinery and petrochemical integration. Then, we discuss the proposed model formulation in Section 5.3. In Section 5.4, we illustrate the performance of the model through an industrial-scale case study. The chapter ends with some concluding remarks in Section 5.5. 

Figure 13.21. Petroleum refinery block diagram. Several of the processes identified by blocks include distillation or are followed by distillation (Gary and Handwerk, Petroleum Refining, Dekker, New York, 1975).

Dodecylbenzene for the production of the alkyl aryl sulfonate type of detergent came later and was soon an important product of those petroleum refineries going into the petrochemical field. The non-ionic detergents followed when low-sudsing liquid detergents began to show their value. 

BTX (benzene-toluene-xylene) mixtures are an important petroleum refinery stream that is separated by extractive distillation (Fig. 1) from a hydrocarbon stream, usually a reformate, and followed by downstream fractionation for isolation of the pure materials for further treatment and use (Fig. 2). 

Results of several recent epidemiological studies have examined the possible association between gasoline exposure and increased leukemia and kidney cancer risks. In a recent follow-up study of the cohort of 34,569 British petroleum refinery and 23,306 distribution workers, an SMR of 121 for kidney cancer was reported in distribution workers (Rushton 1993). In particular, an increase in kidney cancer risk (SMR=141) was noted in tank truck drivers. For refinery workers, the SMR was 101. In addition, excesses in leukemia mortality were found in distribution workers (SMR=121), but not refinery workers (SRM=73). For tank truck drivers, the SMR was 155. No estimate of exposure to hydrocarbons was provided in the study. 

Treatment of Petroleum R nery Wastewater. Ozone treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater has been used mainly to remove organic contaminants, especially phenols. The combination of ozonation followed... 

A modern-day petroleum refinery is a complex chemical operation that involves numerous separations and chemical processing steps. Today virtually all the chemical analysis equipment found in the research laboratory is also used in the refinery or an online basis is often coupled to a control circuit to monitor product quality and make the necessary immediate adjustment in process conditions required to meet product specifications. While the online gas chromatograph is the most widely used instrument, infrared spectrometers, mass spectrometers, pH indicators, new infrared spectrometers with chemometric capability and moisture analysis based in solid-state conductors are not found in every refinery in the country. Until the 1970s, samples of most process streams in the refinery were taken at periodic intervals during the day and adjustments were made after the research was received from the refinery s analytical lab. This process was followed by the installation of online analysis equipment that sounded alarms, and the equipment operators took appropriate action. Today most operations are on computer control and the information received from online analytical equipment is processed almost continuously and controls make the required changes. An alarm may still sound and the equipment operator still responds, but usually the problem has already been corrected. 

For the more concentrated feed liquids, such as those found in petroleum refinery stripping operations, the Edmister method [Equations (13.15) through (13.20)] are modified as follows (see Figure 13.10) ... 

Recovery from sour natural gas and from crude oil was first developed in the USA in 1944, and by 1970 these sources exceeded the total volume of Frasch-mined sulfur for the first time, Canada (Alberta) and France are the principal producers from sour natural gas, which contains 15-20% H2S. The USA and Japan are the largest producers from petroleum refineries. The phenomenal growth of these sources is clear from the following figures (in 10 tonnes) <0,5 (1950) ... 

The following mixture of hydrocarbons is obtained as one stream in a petroleum refinery. 

A distillation column for the separation of n-butanc from n-pentane was recently put into operation in a petroleum refinery. Apparently, an error was made in the design because the column fails to make the desired separation as shown in the following table [Chem. Eng. Prog., 61 (8), 79 (1965)]. 

Our analytical procedure consists of stepwise acetone extraction followed by cyclohexane. Subsequently, the acetone-soluble fraction is partioned between hexane/aqueous ethanol (12,15), and the soluble components are freed of solvents and determined gravimetrically. For lack of specific nomenclature, the botanochemicals isolated by this technique have been referred to as "whole plant oil," "polyphenol," and "polymeric hydrocarbon." Actually, components from these extracts need to be further characterized. However, petroleum refinery processes may be sufficiently insensitive to allow use of carbon-hydrogen rich compounds represented by a broad spectrum of structures. For example, consider the diverse chemicals ranging from methanol to natural rubber which have been converted to gasoline (16). Thus, chemical species may be important if chemical intermediates are being generated but may be nonconsequential for production of fuels, solvents, carbon black, and other basic chemicals. 

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