Refinery vacuum distillation units (VDUs) use ejector systems to establish and maintain distillation-column pressure for capturing valuable crude fractions and reducing vacuum residuum. Reliable ...
That vitamins A and D can now be produced to sell as cheaply as good brandy is a fact which the chemical engineers of Arthur D. Little, Inc. let out of the pandora box of industry last week. The ...
Fermentation revolution? Trash becomes treasure as bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol
Flowsheet of isopropanol and acetone recovery process using vacuum distillation (VD) process configuration (W - water, IPA - isopropanol, AC - acetone, AA - acetic acid). In a major stride towards ...
This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 4-7, New Orleans) highlights discussion surrounding ...
THE Transactions of the Society of Chemical Industry (58, No. 2; 1939) contain several papers presented last November to a meeting of the Chemical Engineering Group which dealt with the industrial ...
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan's top oil refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, a unit of JX Holdings, said it shut the No.2 vacuum distillation unit at its 140,000 barrels per day (bpd) Mizushima-A ...
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