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Petroleum Refining In Nontechnical
Language Exam Questions And Answers
2025
An indicator of how complicated refining operations can get is the number
of alternatives to make a downstream volume change. Name six ways to
increase the volume of cat light gas oil. - (1) Decrease the initial boiling
point
(2) Increase the end point of the cat light gas oil
(3) increase the feed to the cat cracker by increasing the crude distilling
column feed rate
(4) change the cut points of the straight run heavy gas oil and the flasher
tops
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(5) increase the cycle oil volume by lowering the end point of the cat heavy
gas oil
(6) change the operating conditions in the cat cracker reactor
(7) change the operating conditions in the regenerator to change the
cracking yields
Fill in blanks:
(a) After moonshine comes out the top of the tops of a still, it must be run
through a [] before it can be bottled.
(b) [] processing is not very practical in a modern refinery. Today all crude
distillation is a [] operation.
(c) Tail ends occur because the [] of one cut overlaps the [] of another.
(d) As vapor moves up the distilling column, its temperature [].
(e) Lowering the end point of a distilling column cut [] the volume of that cut
and [] the API gravity. - (a) cooler
(b) batch, continuous
(c) end point, initial boiling point
(d) decreases
(e) decreases, increases
Fill in the blanks:
(a) Alkylation is the inverse of [].
(b) The catalyst in the alkylation is either [] or [] depending on the process
chosen.
(c) The five main parts of an alky plant are: [], [], [], [], and [].
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