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• Distillation — Distiller and Distillery redirect here. For other uses, see Distiller (disambiguation) and Distillery (disambiguation). For other uses, see Distillation (disambiguation). Laboratory display of distillation: 1: A heating device 2: Still pot 3:… …   Wikipedia

• distillation — 1. The general process of vaporizing liquids, crude oil, or one of its fractions in a closed vessel, collecting and condensing the vapors into liquids. Commercial forms of distillation in petroleum refining are crude, atmospheric, vacuum, rerun,… …   Petroleum refining glossary

• Distillation unit — (atmospheric)   The primary distillation unit that processes crude oil (including mixtures of other hydrocarbons) at approximately atmospheric conditions. It includes a pipe still for vaporizing the crude oil and a fractionation tower for… …   Energy terms

• tower — A refinery apparatus used in connection with a still to increase the degree of separation of fractions obtained during the distillation of oil in the still. Also called a column …   Petroleum refining glossary

• Continuous distillation — Image 1: Typical industrial distillation towers Image 2: A crude oil vacuum distillation column as used in oil refineries …   Wikipedia

• Fractional distillation — is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions, such as in separating chemical compounds by their boiling point by heating them to a temperature at which several fractions of the compound will evaporate. It is a special… …   Wikipedia

• Vacuum distillation — At atmospheric pressure, dimethyl sulfoxide boils at 189°C. Under a vacuum, it distills off into the connected receiver at only 70°C. Vacuum distillation is a method of distillation whereby the pressure above the liquid mixture to be distilled is …   Wikipedia

• vacuum tower bottoms — abbr. VTB Vacuum Tower Bottoms (VTB) are the left over bottom product of distillation, which can be processed in cokers and used for upgrading into gasoline, diesel and gas oil. Crude oil separation is performed in a series of distillation towers …   Petroleum refining glossary

• Cooling tower — Natural draft wet cooling hyperboloid towers at Didcot Power Station, UK …   Wikipedia

• plate tower — noun : a tower or column provided with plates for use especially in fractional distillation (as of petroleum distillates) called also plate column …   Useful english dictionary

• petroleum refining — Introduction  conversion of crude oil into useful products. History Distillation of kerosene and naphtha       The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859. Prior to… …   Universalium