Difference between upstream and downstream in a refinery, Mechanical Engineering

Assignment Help:

The total process of a the refining business begins at the oil field or gas field and runs all the way to the sending of processed hydrocarbon to a final user.

Upstream applies to the operation of exploration, drilling, hydrocarbon production, and transmission via truck, rail or ship or pipeline to the refinery intake valve.

Downstream includes all work completed at the refinery, distillation, cracking, reforming, blending storage, mixing and shipping.

Related Discussions:- Difference between upstream and downstream in a refinery

Theory of machine, analytical method for determining the acceleration and v...

analytical method for determining the acceleration and velocity?

Thermodynamics., First law of thermodynamics applied to flow process

First law of thermodynamics applied to flow process

Lami''s theorems, alternative theorems for lamis theorem

alternative theorems for lamis theorem

Find the time domain equivalent sinusoid, Given these sinusoids: x1(t) = 0....

Given these sinusoids: x1(t) = 0.5cos(25t+20 o ), x2(t)=0.85cos(25t+160 o ) and x3(t)= 0.81cos(25t-145 o ) (a) Subplot the phasors X1, X2 and X3 corresponding to the thee si

Design study, how to produce a design that meets the specification given: B...

how to produce a design that meets the specification given: Beam Dimensions W, H and T, where H=2W and T=W/20 • Bolt Size D1 • Side Plate thickness T2 and width W2 • Cradle Plat

Design gas compressors, Q. Design Gas Compressors? As gas compressors a...

Q. Design Gas Compressors? As gas compressors are often high investment equipment, it makes sense to locate these well away from other equipment to minimize potential fire dama

Find the inner diameter of the tubular steel shaft, Find the inner diameter...

Find the inner diameter of the tubular steel shaft: A solid aluminium shaft having 1 m long & of 50 mm diameter is to be replaced by a tubular steel shaft of the similar lengt

Manufacturing systems and technology, The first successful numerical machin...

The first successful numerical machine tool was developed at MIT in the year:

Determine the relative maximum error, a) Round off the numbers 865250 amd 3...

a) Round off the numbers 865250 amd 37.46235 to four significant figures and compute Ea, Er, Ep in each case. b) IF u= 4 x 2 y 3 /z 4 and errors in x, y, z be 0.001, determine

Forecasting system outputs, Forecasting System Outputs: In a company, ...

Forecasting System Outputs: In a company, inventory level is reviewed biweekly. If the parts used in an assembly have the lead time of one and a half week, what period should

Write Your Message!

Name

Email id

Message

Verfication Code

User Account

All Pages