• How can a refinery reduce its energy consumption?
  • Inefficient refineries can reduce their own energy consumption by as much as 30% through more efficient technological, energy and organisational solutions. This can be illustrated as follows: a refinery, which accounts for 5% of the energy consumption of crude oil, has to work 16 days a year to meet its own energy requirements.
  • How much energy does a refinery use?
  • Main energy consumers at a refinery are fuel (heaters) ¨C 74%-78% of total refinery consumption; steam generation (HpS, MpS and LpS) ¨C 18%-20% of total refinery consumption; and electricity (motors, tools, lighting) ¨C 4%-6% of total refinery consumption.
  • What is crude oil refining?
  • Crude oil is a mixture of tens of thousands of chemicals. The first step in petroleum refining is separating that mix through a distillation process. The raw crude oil is heated up to about 500¡ãC. Lighter components, such as those that make up gasoline, vaporize at lower temperatures and are captured.
  • How many crude oil refineries are there in the world?
  • At the end of 2018, there were 615 crude oil refineries in the world, with a combined refining capacity of roughly 92 million barrels per day (bpd) 17. This equates to an average single refinery, based on crude oil processed, having a capacity of about 150,000?bpd, or about 20,700?tons per day (based on 7.25 barrels per ton).
  • How to increase petrochemical yield of refinery operations?
  • We see three ways for players to increase the petrochemical yield of refinery operations: change individual process units, change the mix of process units, or build more direct crude-to-chemicals plants. The individual process unit that receives the most attention is the fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), the longtime workhorse of refining.
  • How does petroleum refining work?
  • The first step in petroleum refining is separating that mix through a distillation process. The raw crude oil is heated up to about 500¡ãC. Lighter components, such as those that make up gasoline, vaporize at lower temperatures and are captured. Heavier components, such as home heating oil, vaporize at higher temperatures.