Distillation

Vietnam's Nghi Son refinery processes first batch of non-Kuwaiti crude oil

Technical considerations for solvent selection in extractive distillation of acetonitrile/toluene azeotrope

EIA: U.S. crude stocks fall, fuel inventories rise on robust refining

U.S. crude inventories fell, while gasoline and distillates stockpiles rose last week amid strong refining activity, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Valero plans CDU upgrades at Port Arthur, Texas (U.S.) refinery in February

Among the improvements will be upgrades to processing of bottoms - heavy, gunky residual crude oil that is usually sent to the coker or used in asphalt.

Tales of innovative approaches for skin metal temperatures

Update: Fire extinguished at Venezuelan oil upgrader, operations halted

Incidents and outages are frequent within PDVSA's aging infrastructure, including oilfields, refineries and upgraders that are key to turning the country's extra heavy oil output into exportable crude grades.

Vacuum distillation unit ejector-condenser interplay

Retrofit hydrocarbon distillation systems using exergy analysis and product optimization: A systematic framework and application to NGL fractionation—Part 1

Temperature control strategies for distillation columns in the CPI

Idemitsu shuts 165,000-bpd Aichi CDU for scheduled maintenance

Its smaller rival Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, also shut the 100,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on August 27 for scheduled maintenance, with operations expected to resume in October.