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5. Crude prices and trends
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An Example of Refinery Configuration Development
The configuration example described here would be one of many that would be
examined meeting the production and economic objectives of a particular refinery
operation. In this example, a refining company wishes to examine a new “grassroots” configuration that will produce the following products from a medium
Middle East crude, whose assay TBP curve is given as Fig. 1.
The product specifications are given in the respective text, and the production
limits are as follows:
Crude feed
50,000 BPCD
LPG
3,289 BPCD (max)
Gasoline
22,170 BPCD (max)
20,390 BPCD (min)
Kerosene
No target
Auto diesel
8,830 BPCD (max)
3,000 BPCD (min)
Gas oil
8,553 BPCD (max)
2,630 BPCD (min)
Marine diesel
3,000 BPCD (max)
2,300 BPCD (min)
Heavy fuel
8,500 BPCD (max)
6,500 BPCD (min)
Bunker fuel
No restrictions
A Solution
For this configuration, the following processes will be examined:
• Atmospheric crude distillation unit (CDU)
• Vacuum distillation unit (VDU)
• Light ends distillation units
• Naphtha hydrotreater (Nap HDS)
• Catalytic reformer
• Light gas oil hydrotreater (LGO HDS)
• Heavy gas oil hydrotreater (HGO HDS)
Petroleum Products and a Refinery Configuration
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