In petroleum refining industry, external catalyst cooler is a key device in FCC units processing heavy residue feedstock.
Chevron, based in California, agreed in March to sell Pembroke, which specializes in processing heavy, lower-quality crudes, to the Texas-based oil company Valero Energy.
That makes processing heavy oil unprofitable for some refineries, since the gains from diesel are outweighed by losses on fuel oil.
The group focused on Houston's heavily industrialised neighbourhood of Manchester, where the Valero Energy Corporation has a massive refinery capable of processing heavy crude oil.
In Britain, meanwhile, people are once again making a connection with food after 50 or 60 years of heavy processing, heavy farming, heavy retailing, heavy marketing - and garlic is part of that reintroduction to the culinary world.
Feedstock atomization affects catalytic cracking reactions that take place in an FCC riser reactor, and is considered a critical parameter especially when processing heavy fuels.
The ultimate goal of the project is to develop technology capable of utilizing and processing heavy residual oils with inherent CO2 capture.
International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx): DAFx certainly includes some signal-processing-heavy research on cool-sounding audio effects, but it also includes broader topics like analysis (and synthesis) algorithms, spatial audio, interactive performance issues, audio perception, and others.
Owned by Koch Carbon, a company that is controlled by the industrialists Charles and David Koch, it is a byproduct of processing heavy bitumen piped from the oil sands in Alberta to a Detroit refinery.
