Current research of complex chemical systems, including biomass pyrolysis, petroleum refining, and wastewater remediation requires analysis of large analyte mixtures (>100 compounds). Quantification of each carbon-containing analyte by existing methods (flame ionization detection) requires extensive identification and calibration. In this work, we describe an integrated microreactor system call...

Nanoporous acid catalysts such as zeolites form the backbone of catalytic technologies for refining petroleum. With the promise of a biomass economy, new catalyst systems will have to be discovered, making shape-selective base catalysts especially important because of the high oxygen content in biomass-derived feedstocks. Strongly basic zeolites are attractive candidates, but such materials are...

This paper addresses procurement planning in oil refining, which has until now only had limited attention in the literature. We introduce a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model and develop a novel two-stage solution approach, which aims at computational efficiency while addressing the problems due to discrepancies between a non-linear and a linearized formulation. The proposed mode...

It is important to detect the leakage of the gas to be flammable or poisonous from the cracks in pipes of petroleum refining plants or chemical plants. We examined the application of modular neural networks to the acoustic diagnosis technique for the leakage sound. The modular neural network has the ability to adapt its structure according to the environment. Experiments were performed for an a...

Crude oil blending is an important unit operation in petroleum refining industry. There are two difficulties for commercial crude oil optimizing controllers: (1) the optimization is stable only in some special conditions, the simplex-base algorithm is not robust; (2) the optimal control should be realized on-line and it cannot be analyzed off-line based on the history data. In this paper, we pr...

Distillation separates compounds by the variation in how effortlessly they vaporize. The two main types of standard distillation comprise unremitting distillation and batch distillation. Unremitting distillation, as the name says, unremittingly takes a feed and separates it into two or more products. Batch distillation takes on lot (or batch) at a time of feed and splits it into products by sel...

Zeolites of MFI-type belong to the most important zeolite structures in catalysis and are used in many shape-selective processes in petroleum refining industry, in particular for the kinetic separation of alkane isomers. Practically all important applications involve mixtures. However, due to the experimental difficulty, the number of experimental studies of mixture adsorption and diffusion is ...

Toluene occurs naturally as a component of crude oil and is produced in petroleum refining and coke oven operations; toluene is a major aromatic constituent of gasoline (HSDB, 1999). It is used in household aerosols, nail polish, paints and paint thinners, lacquers, rust inhibitor, adhesives and solvent based cleaning agents. Toluene is also utilized in printing operations, leather tanning and ...

The application of elaborately designed magnetic catalysts has long been limited to ease their separation from the products only. In this paper, we for the first time employed a magnetic sulphonated poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) resin catalyst on a magnetically stabilized-bed (MSB) reactor to enhance the etherification of fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) light gasoline, one of the most importa...

Currently, the processes of oil industry are focused on deepening refining. One ways to deepen refining is obtain petroleum cokes at delayed coking plants. At moment, total productivity plants increasing, while output coke with a high sulfur content also growing, which does not allow it be used in typical consumption – metallurgical industry. In this regard, researchers actively exploring possi...