Case Study
Steam Tracing Keeps Lube Oil Flowing to Loading Rack at Northeastern Refinery
To control temperature within feed lines from lube oil storage tanks to loading racks, the refinery considered and rejected electric temperature tracing on the basis of higher cost, a history of reliability trouble and difficulty of troubleshooting. Facility Description The refinery, with a capacity of 130,000 bbl/day of crude oil, recently upgraded its product from lube oil base stock to high-grade finished lube oils. They then marketed bot