Oil Refinery Units and Their Roles in Crude Oil Processing

Oil refinery units are a collection of specialized and interconnected sections, each of which plays a specific role in converting crude oil into valuable products. Using units such as atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, cracking, hydrotreating, reforming, isomerization, and sulfur recovery, an oil refinery converts crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel,…