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This process is energy-intensive, but a new type of column structure promises energy savings of as much as 20 - 40 percent. The petroleum industry relies on fractional distillation of raw materials to ...

THIS book is a new and amplified edition of the author's well-known treatise on “Fractional Distillation,” first published in 1903. Prof. Sydney Young is an acknowledged authority on the subject on ...

In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional ...

The authors argue that the cost of generating nitrogen via an in-house gas generator is considerably lower than the cost of using fractional distillation to generate liquid nitrogen. Nitrogen gas is ...

A key crude oil distillation unit has been destroyed at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai by Ukrainian ...

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IN his preface Prof. Young says that he wrote this book in the hope that the solution of the difficulties of fractional distillation might be rendered easier. He has written an eminently practical ...