ORC-I processes over 35,000 barrels of crude oil a day to supply totally different grade of petroleum products. The Refinery’s primary products are Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Light Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha, Excessive Octane Blending Element, Motor Gasoline, Kerosene, Jet Fuels, Excessive Pace Diesel and Furnace Oil.
The refining course of begins in the distillation towers. Here, liquids and vapors are separated into components in keeping with weight and boiling level. Naphtha Hydrotreater of three,000 BBLS capability is designed to provide feed for Catalytic Reforming unit which convert it to high octane motor gasoline. The Catalytic Reforming course of lead to higher octane fuels designed to fulfill the wants of at the moment’s engines.
Solely about forty % of crude oil is comprised of the elements for the high-high quality fuels we produce. The remaining elements of crude are heavy, poor performing fuels and bought as fuel oil. Kerosene, Light & Heavy Naphtha and LPG are additional handled to produce market grade specification fuels. Finally, after more than 20 hydrocarbons and additives have been blended into the gas, the completed products are held in storage tanks, able to be shipped to clients.
Single Level Mooring
Single Point Mooring (SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for the offloading of crude tankers. The system consists of floating hoses related from tanker to SPM, tied to Pipeline End Manifold (PLEM) by way of versatile hoses and PLEM linked to a refinery storage tank via inflexible undersea pipeline of (11.32 Km) and onshore pipeline of 2.9 Km.
Crude Distillation Unit
Crude oil is separated into fractions by fractional distillation. The fractions at the top of the fractionating column have decrease boiling factors than the fractions at the bottom. The entire fractions are processed further in other refining units.
Naphtha Hydrotreater Unit
Hydro treating is a catalytic refining course of using a catalyst and hydrogen wealthy fuel stream to remove about 99% of contaminants similar to nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and metals from straight run heavy naphtha. These contaminants if not removed from the petroleum fractions, travel by the refinery processing models; can have detrimental effects on the equipments, the catalysts, and the quality of the finished product. Usually, hydro treating is completed previous to processes resembling catalytic reforming and isomerization so that the catalyst just isn’t contaminated by untreated feedstock.
Reformer Unit
Catalytic reforming is an important process used to transform low-octane naphtha into high-octane gasoline mixing components called Reformate. A Catalytic Reformer unit processes straight run naphtha with a boiling range of eighty-one hundred fifty C for improvement of octane number. The process requires heating naphtha to a temperature of 482C to 520C after mixing with recycle Hydrogen and passing by a series of alternating furnaces and fastened-bed reactors containing a platinum-rhenium catalyst within the vapor state. The feed naphtha is transformed into excessive octane Reformate and Hydrogen. Reformate is used for MS blending whereas Hydrogen is separated from the reformate stream for recycling and used in different processes such as for Hydrotreating.
Isomerization Unit
A element of refinery gasoline swimming pools that continuously affords the very best opportunity for high quality enchancment is the pentane-Hexane fraction, or light straight-run (LSR) naphtha. The LSR is characterized by a low octane number, ordinarily 60 to 70 research octane quantity (RON). Isomerization converts linear molecules corresponding to regular pentane into larger-octane branched molecules for mixing into the tip-product gasoline. This Course of also removes Benzene from the feed. The isomerization unit is comprised of three sections, Feed Preparation, Penex and Molex and increases the octane from 65 to 90.
