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Detoxification of Crude Oil

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Petroleum contributes significantly to our lives and will continue to do so for many years to come. Petroleum derivatives supply more than 50% of the world’s total supply of energy (Jarullah Kinetic modelling simulation and optimal operation of trickle bed reactor for hydrotreating of crude oil. University of Bradford, UK, 2011 [20]). Traditionally, crude oil goes through fractional distillation to produce different grades of fuel such as gasoline, kerosene, and diesel oil providing fuel for automobiles, tractors, trucks, aircraft, and ships. Catalytic hydrotreating (HDT) is used to detoxify the oil fractions produced by fractional distillation in the petroleum refining industries which involve removal of pollutants such as sulfur, nitrogen, metals, and asphaltene in trickle-bed reactors. Recently, Jarullah and co-workers proposed detoxification of whole crude oil a priori before the crude oil enters further processing in a fractionating column. This chapter highlights this new technology.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq

    Aysar T. Jarullah

  2. School of Engineering, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK

    Iqbal M. Mujtaba & Alastair S. Wood

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Jarullah, A.T., Mujtaba, I.M., Wood, A.S. (2018). Detoxification of Crude Oil. In: De, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Assadi, M., Mukherjee, D. (eds) Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7188-1_8

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