Asphalt Mixing Plant – Construction Equipment
on Aug 31, 2009 in Construction Equipment Asphalt Mixing Plant Asphalt Asphalt Mixing Plant – Construction Equipment Nowadays every country wants to enhance their economical strength more strong and powerful that is why almost each country is mainly focusing on construction of strong infrastructure of entire nation. I...

7 Ways Profit From Asphalt and Highway Construction
on Aug 31, 2009 in Asphalt Highway Construction By Guest Author: Robert Williams, PhD, P.E. There is a dominant stock investing theme that directs you to invest in companies that provide a product that everybody uses every day. May I draw your attention to a specific product in this category, name...

Distillation Oil Refining
on Aug 5, 2009 in Oil Refining Petroleum Crude Oil Crude oil, also called petroleum, is a complex mixture of carbon and hydrogen (hydrocarbons), which exist as a liquid in the earth's crust. Crude oil has many compositions, some is black, thick and tar like, while other crude oils are lighter in colo...

Cupellation
on Jul 26, 2009 in Refinery Gold Cupellation Cupellation is a process used to separate noble metals such as gold or silver from base metals such as lead. It is often used to assay gold in order to test its purity. Sometimes cupellation is called "fire assaying." It was formerly the usual proces...

Treating and Blending the Fractions
on Jun 11, 2009 in Gasoline Diesel Fuel Chemical Hydrocarbons Distillated and chemically processed fractions are treated to remove impurities, such as organic compounds containing sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, water, dissolved metals and inorganic salts. Treating is usually done by passing the fractions through the...

Chemical Processing
on Jun 11, 2009 in Chemical Hydrocarbons Cracking Chemical Processing You can change one fraction into another by one of three methods: breaking large hydrocarbons into smaller pieces (cracking) combining smaller pieces to make larger ones (unification) rearranging various pieces to make desired hydrocarbons (alteratio...

Petroleum
on Jun 11, 2009 in Petroleum Refineries Petroleum Hydrocarbons Petroleum (L. petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit. "rock oil") or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plu...

How Oil Refining Works
on Jun 11, 2009 in Oil Refining Refinery Oil refinery The Refining Process As mentioned previously, a barrel of crude oil has a mixture of all sorts of hydrocarbons in it. Oil refining separates everything into useful substances. Chemists use the following steps: The oldest and most common way to sepa...

Fractional Distillation
on Jun 11, 2009 in Oil Companies Chemical Fractional Distillation Boils Photo courtesy Phillips PetroleumDistillation columns in an oil refinery The various components of crude oil have different sizes, weights and boiling temperatures; so, the first step is to separate these components. Because they have different boi...

The Refining Process
on Jun 11, 2009 in Refining Process Refinery What Is A Refinery? A refinery is a factory. Just as a paper mill turns lumber into paper, a refinery takes crude oil and turns it into gasoline and hundreds of other useful products. A typical refinery costs billions of dollars to build and million...