It is usually a solvent de-asphalter unit, SDA . The SDA separates the asphalt from the feedstock because light hydrocarbons will dissolve aliphatic compounds but not asphaltenes.
12.
The field, first tapped in 1979, currently produces 50, 000 barrels of a day of condensate, a light hydrocarbon useful to the petrochemical industry as a raw material.
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This may be defined to include fluids other than water, such as light hydrocarbons on Titan, or possibly supercritical carbon dioxide on Mars, which do not persist in Earth conditions.
14.
In the second stage, the syngas is converted into light hydrocarbons using one of three main processes : Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Methanol synthesis with subsequent conversion to gasoline or petrochemicals, and methanation.
15.
Because of the lack of light hydrocarbons, RP-1 has a high flash point, and is less of a fire hazard than gasoline / petrol or even some jet and diesel fuels.
16.
For NGLs to become a major business, however, took the efforts of large and imaginative players, plus the development of a much larger gas supply from which to extract these light hydrocarbons.
17.
The methane abundance relative to molecular hydrogen in the stratosphere is about 10 " 4, while the abundance ratio of other light hydrocarbons, like ethane and acetylene, to molecular hydrogen is about 10 " 6.
18.
As with other light hydrocarbons, butadiene leaks can be detected by the formation of ice balls ( from the evaporative freezing of water out of the atmosphere ) even when the temperature is well above 0 �C.
19.
While most of the Elgin / Franklin output is oil, it also includes natural gas and 125, 000 b / d of condensate, a light hydrocarbon that will be blended with oil from nearby fields when piped ashore.
20.
The proportion of light hydrocarbons in the petroleum mixture varies greatly among different oil fields, ranging from as much as 97 percent by weight in the lighter oils to as little as 50 percent in the heavier oils and bitumens.
