The phrase "as a refinery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a function or role that something or someone serves, particularly in contexts related to processing or refining materials.
Example: "The plant operates as a refinery, converting raw materials into usable products."
Alternatives: "in the capacity of a refinery" or "functioning as a refinery."
Heavier oils are becoming increasingly important as a refinery feedstock.
A man fishes at nighttime as a gargantuan light-spangled oil tanker drifts by; plants flourish along the river's banks as a refinery looms in the background.
He went to work for the Standard Oil Company of California as a refinery engineer, and in 1941 began work as an aircraft design engineer at Lockheed.
Nazhan told me that the fires came from the Qayyarah oil field, and a U.S. Army spokesman later confirmed that the strike had hit two gas and separation plants as well as a refinery.
So long as a refinery can be built near good rail terminals in these areas, says Ken Eriksen, who analyses transport patterns at Informa Economics, a research firm specialising in agriculture, it is more cost-effective to convert the corn into ethanol and send that to distant markets.All this activity is benefiting rural economies and related industries big and small.
Yet even now, at 62, Mr. Piano, a good-natured Italian, seemed amazed that France allowed two young foreigners -- he was 33 and his British partner was 37 -- to challenge the sober 18th-century stone facades of eastern Paris with an immense metallic structure variously described (by its critics) as a refinery or an ocean liner and (by its architects) as "a Jules Verne spaceship that can't fly".
[C3.] Oil Prices Rise After Explosion A day after crude prices had their largest decline of the year, oil futures bounced back as an explosion at a refinery in Texas highlighted the limits of the industry's supplies.
Some bacteria and algae turn sunlight into oils that can be burned in a car engine or used as raw material at a refinery in place of crude oil.
In addition, Chevron said, its revenue from refining and marketing dropped as a fire damaged its refinery in Richmond, Calif., and Hurricane Isaac disrupted production at a refinery in Mississippi.
A huge power cut affecting 18 (out of 24) states on September 3rd was due to sabotage, he said, as was a refinery explosion last year that killed 49 people.
It was partly due to a temporary reduction in supplies from Canada as well as increased demand from a refinery in Indiana that has just restarted work.
