Naphtha

A century later Aeneas Tacticus mentions a mixture of sulphur, pitch, charcoal, incense and tow packed in wooden vessels, ignited and thrown onto the decks of enemy ships. Formulae given by Vegetius around AD 350 add naphtha or petroleum. Some nine centuries later the same substances are found and later recipes include saltpetre and turpentine make their appearance. The ultimate in this form of chemical warfare was called

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measures include Light vehicles replaced with hybrid vehicles, promoting the use of bus transportation for employees. Suncor has also made measure plans to reduce Volatile Organic compounds (VOCs) by processing the forth treatment plant tailings in the Naphtha Recovery unit to recover high portion of diluent. The use of inclined plate separators in forth treatment that reduce emissions. Plant wide fugitive emissions identification and control using portal recommended by the CAPP 2007. Suncor mitigation

2010, Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company, a petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Washington had an incident that involving hydrogen (U.S. Chemical Safety and Investigative Board, 2014). During their process, the company runs Catalytic Reformer / Naphtha Hydrotreater units for petroleum refining. Tesoro uses a 6600-E heat exchanger for this process. According to the report from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Investigative Board, the heat exchanger ruptured. High Temperature Hydrogen Attack or HTHA

Petroliam Nasional Berhad short form as PETRONAS is a type of oil and gas’s company in Malaysia that was set up on 17 August 1974. According to the Fortune, PETRONAS is one of the corporations in Global 500's largest corporations in the world and ranked as the 69th largest company in the world in 2014. PETRONAS started operating, there an only 15 people and only two phone lines in their company. At that time, PETRONAS does not have regular office so they operate on the premises of the Prime Minister’s

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), established in 1959, is committed to the investigation and generation and showcasing of oil. A deal clever is the biggest organization in India with a turnover of Rs 2.47 479crore. IOC has subsidiaries to be specific Indian Oil Technologies, Chennai Petroleum Corporation, Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals, Indian Oil (Mauritius) and Lanka IOC. 19 refineries, IOC own and work 10 with a consolidated limit of 60.2 million metric tons for every annum (MMTPA), ie 1.2 million

CSR stands for Corporate Social Responsibility and it is a concept with many definitions and practices and also a buzzword in the media. In general, corporate social responsibility is the policies and programs of business corporations which tend to benefit society while improving a corporation’s public image and profitability at the same time. The meaning of it is implemented in different countries and companies differently. Warren Buffet said that it takes 20 years to build a reputation and only

dark-colored liquid that is a form of bitumen or a mixture of various hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in various parts of the world and commonly obtained by drilling: used in a natural or refined state as fuel, or separated by distillation into gasoline, naphtha, benzene, kerosene, paraffin, etc. (Petroleum, 2015, pg. 1). Styrofoam is not only used simply to keep a cup of coffee warm, but also as spray foam in houses for

MAJOR PLAYERS 1. Tata Chemicals Corporate Office – Mumbai, Maharashtra Establishment – 1939 Business – Chemical – Industry, Agriculture Website – www.tatachemicals.com Tata Chemicals is a leading chemical company in India having presence in almost all parts of the world. The company is a subsidiary of Tata group. It is the 2nd largest soda Ash producer in the world. Tata chemicals manufacture various types of chemicals for human, industries and agriculture needs such as

Xylene Xylene is an aromatic hydrocarbon that can be found naturally in petroleum and coal tar as 3 isomers: ortho-xylene (1,2 dimethylbenzene), meta-xylene (1,3, dimethylbenzene) and para-xylene (1,4 dimethylbenzene). Xylene is used both as a mixture, where it is referred to as xylenes or xylol, and as individual isomers. Because their boiling points are close, separation using distillation is difficult. Therefore, isomers are separated using techniques such as recrystallization and adsorption.