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- Title
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL, AN IMPORTANT CHALLENGE OF THE PETROLEUM REFINING INDUSTRY.
- Authors
Bridjanian, H.; Samimi, A. Khadem
- Abstract
The most important concerns of the petroleum refining Industry in the near future are: meeting the growing market of cleaner fuels, gradual substitution of scarce light low - sulfur refinery feeds by heavy high - sulfur ones, and the decreasing demand for heavy fuel oil .One solution of the above problems is using residue upgrading processes. Furthermore, economic and strategic reasons promote the exploitation of refining residua and also considerable reserves of very heavy crude oils. Accordingly, the selection of proper processes is an important challenge of the petroleum refiners. The present article - considering the aforementioned problems - discusses the most appropriate ones.
- Publication
Petroleum & Coal, 2011, Vol 53, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
1335-3055
- Publication type
Academic Journal