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Operations Inside a Crude Oil Refinery

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Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 286))

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In this chapter, we give brief descriptions of various operations inside a modern crude oil refinery, and the immense benefits that we derive from products made out of crude oil.

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  1. “Case Studies in Operations Research: Applications of Optimum Decision Making”, Katta G. Murty (editor), Springer, 2015.

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  2. “Oil\(\_\) Refinery”, from Wikipedia, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery

  3. “Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations”, Khalid Y. Al-Qahtani, Ali Elkamel, Wiley-VCH, 2010.

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Murty, K.G. (2020). Operations Inside a Crude Oil Refinery. In: Murty, K. (eds) Models for Optimum Decision Making. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40212-9_2

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