Crude oil refining
kian Petroleum Company is an international specialized company in the petrochemical industry that produces petroleum products by refining crude oil
Crude oil from wells contains unwanted materials such as water and solids such as sand, bitumen and methane and ethane gases
To isolate such agents, it is placed in tanks so that the solids in it are deposited and the gases are released
It then enters the centrifugal separator, the role of which is to separate the water, gas and suspended solids
To remove mineral salts, the oil is washed with lukewarm water. Some of the oil is then piped to the refinery and some is pumped to ports
Distillation
In Crude oil refining To separate the crude oil fractions, several physical and chemical operations are performed on it to produce the products needed by today’s society
One of the most important is the fractional distillation of oil that takes place in the distillation tower
Partial distillation is a series of evaporation and refrigeration that takes place in the trays of a cylindrical tower
Pure liquids boil at ambient pressure at a temperature at which the vapor pressure equals the ambient pressure
Mixed liquids boil at a temperature that is the sum of the partial pressures of their constituent factors equal to the ambient pressure