Atmospheric heavy oil and atmospheric residue
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This post was last edited by jacques0920 on 2017-1-10 at 13:07. Hello everyone, when looking at the flow diagrams for atmospheric and vacuum distillation, the oil that comes out of the bottom of the atmospheric tower is sometimes labeled as atmospheric heavy oil, and sometimes as atmospheric residue. Is this related to the quality of the crude oil? Thank you
A thing can be called whatever one wants; it’s up to each person’s preference.
More often, it is due to operational considerations
They’re all bottom oil; it’s just called by different names, right? It’s the same thing, isn’t it?