Case Study

Steam Tracing Keeps Lube Oil Flowing to Loading Rack at Northeastern Refinery

Steam Tracing Keeps Lube Oil Flowing to Loading Rack at Northeastern Refinery

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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

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