A Typical refinery will have a dozen or more of these processing units. These fall into four broad categories:
- Separation Units - some process units separate a hydrocarbon mixture into its components through distillation or extraction. The most common units are atmospheric distillation & vacuum distillation
- Conversion units - take individual hydrocarbon streams and convert them to other hydrocarbons by changing their size and chemical structure. Examples are the FCC, Alkylation unit
- Treating Units - Several processes units improve a hydrocarbon stream by removing impurities and changing some chemical properties without changing the refinery’s product yield. Example: Hydroprocessing
- Supporting process units - this includes utilities and tank farm and other non-hydrocarbon processing units
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