Membrane distillation or MD, a thermally-driven separation process, is a promising technology for desalting highly saline waters and offers several advantages over other techniques. Dr. Nidal Hilal ...

As of January 1, 2013, the United States had 139 operating refineries and 4 idle refineries with total atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity of 17.8 million barrels per calendar day (bbl/d ...

December 21, 2009 Method makes refineries more efficient WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Refineries could trim millions of dollars in energy costs annually by using a new method developed at Purdue University ...

In this article, we will be analyzing the global refined petroleum industry while covering the 15 largest exporters of refined petroleum. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go ...

But the distillation is more energy efficient depending on the order in which the columns are operated. "There are many ways to arrange the columns," Agrawal said. Shah created a computer ...

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) aims to increase the production capacity of Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries from ...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced a plan Tuesday to phase out eight petroleum-based synthetic food dyes from America’s food supply in the coming months. “Food dye is just a no-brainer.

Oil producers and petroleum refineries, especially in the GCC countries, could save up to $ 50 billion if membrane distillation techniques are applied to treatment of produced water, according to a ...

In the case of petroleum, four distillation columns are needed to separate raw crude into five separate components - naphtha, kerosene, diesel fuel, gas oil and heavy residue.