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    Common process units found in a refinery • Desalter unit washes out salt from the crude oil before it enters the atmospheric distillation unit. • Atmospheric distillation unit distills crude oil into fractions. See Continuous distillation. • Vacuum distillation unit further distills residual bottoms after atmospheric distillation. • Naphtha hydrotreater unit uses hydrogen to desulfurize naphtha from atmospheric distillation. Must hydrotreat the naphtha before sending to a Catalytic

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    Environmental pollution is the biggest menace to the human race on this planet today. The environment consists of earth‚ water‚ air‚ plants and animals. If we pollute the environment‚ the existence of man and nature will be hampered. Although most of people know that but they still destroy their own life. There a numerous kinds of environment pollution. However‚ I split it to 3 groups: water pollution‚ air pollution and soil pollution. Nowadays‚ the water of rivers and sea all over the worlds is

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    Impact of Pollution The environment is a part of our daily lives yet most people do not consider the impact that their actions have on the environment. People interact with and depend on different aspects of the environment from the air to water and land. There are relationships between actions that we make and the environment‚ the most obvious one being pollution. The lasting influence we have on our surroundings may not be immediately apparent but future generations will have to live with

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    An oil spill can be defined as an accidental or deliberate dumping of oil or petroleum products into the ocean and its coastal waters‚ bays‚ and harbors‚ or onto land‚ or into rivers or lakes (Holum 1977). Between one and ten million metric tons (one metric ton is 1000 kilograms) of oil are put into the oceans every year. The oil is released‚ most often‚ in small yet consistent doses from tankers‚ industry‚ or on shore waste disposal (Boesh‚ Hersher‚ et al. 1974). Tanker spills cost the United

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    Pollution………. Our world is being polluted every day more and more with factories and cars. People are not realizing that this is hurting our world. Money won’t be able to fix that soon because money can’t grow trees or develop animals. We need to start making a real improvement in our world today; make it a better world to live in for the new generation. One way we could help is hybrid cars. One reason why these cars are better are because they have a battery pack that you can plug in and it

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    to be both positive and negative. The issue I chose is beach pollution. This issue affects my south Florida community because we love the beach and the beaches are polluted. There is nothing positive about beach pollution. It harms innocent sea life as well as veers people away from the beautiful beaches. 1. What do members of your family and community say about the issue? My family and community are against beach pollution. They say that Loggerhead Turtles will not lay their eggs on polluted

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    smoke billowing from a factory chimney‚ flyash generated by thermal power plants‚ and speeding cars causing dust to rise from the roads. Natural phenomena such as the eruption of a volcano and even someone smoking a cigarette can also cause air pollution. | | |The gaseous composition of unpolluted air | | 

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    Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat or light. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. Pollution is nothing but "too much of something at wrong place" and environmental pollution is generally defined

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    ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Environmental pollution is one of the biggest problems the world faces today. It is an issue that troubles us economically‚ physically and everyday in our lives. Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants We all live on earth which‚ is but a planet‚ – and the only planet known to have an environment

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    Rostock ( Singapore ) Pte Ltd (Trafigura) ( hereinafter called » Trafigura » ) just lately announced that it’s agreed to purchase copper smelter Jinchuan Group‚ 30% on the shares . This smelter can be a wholly owned subsidiary of Guangxi Jinchuan Jinchuan Group company . Foreign corporations are quietly took in excess of some of China ‘s non-ferrous enterprises. Commodities giant Trafigura ( Singapore ) Pte Ltd (Trafigura) ( hereinafter called » Trafigura » ) today announced that it’s agreed to

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