Science
This material is required for combustion reactions and consists of a combination of Hydrogen and Carbon atoms.
What is a hydrocarbon?
This group specializes in technological advancements, and is often who you call if your computer is having issues.
What is Information Technology?
This piece of equipment is designed to control flow through piping.
What is a valve?
This individual helps balance the financials of the company through budgeting.
What is an Accountant?
This principle allows liquids to separate from each other when mixed, and is used in refining for processes such as Desalting. It's formula is mass divided by volume.
What is Density?
This technology allows two devices to communicate with each other without the need to be hard-wired together. Refining is beginning to implement this for non-critical process transmitters.
What is wireless technology/Wi-Fi?
A key activity that a Process Engineer does to help support their unit in ways to improve efficiency and productivity.
What is Optimization?
Many disciplines (such as Engineering and Accounting) use this tool to perform calculations, display data, and track finances. You have probably used this software in your schooling.
What is Excel?
This material is used to facilitate a reaction, but is not consumed. Often used in Reforming and Fluidized Catalytic Cracking.
What is Catalyst?
This system allows a Board Operator to adjust process variables on their units without having to physically go to the field.
What is the Control Board?
The act of separating components by boiling points. This principle is used throughout the refinery to separate products, especially on the Crude Unit.
What is distillation?
This group helps determine how the refinery should operate based on the current market. Their goal is to maximize the profits of the refinery as a whole.
What is the Economics and Planning Group?
This measure of quality and improved performance in gasoline. It is the number you see at the gas pump.
What is Octane?
Like a clock, this technology is used to display pressure readings on an online process.
What is a digital pressure gauge?
This unit takes heavy, unwanted hydrocarbons and breaks them apart into more desired products such as Gasoline.
What is the Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCC)?
This looks at a unit's feed and product flow and helps measure that everything is balancing as it should. For example, if there is more feed going in than coming out, material is accumulating in the unit.
What is a Mass Balance?