Saturday, February 15, 2014

What is you opinion of building a petroleum distillation plant on the outskirts of Beirut?

6 comments:

  1. I think it is a very bad idea unless there is a serious assessment of the environmental impact.

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  2. Thank you Tamer for your comment. May be one should also consider security issues of such project.

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  3. Let us move into the technical aspect. What surface area is needed?

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  4. I completely agree. But my priority is the environment.

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  5. Please use the following address, it might help you in understanding fractional distillation first: http://chem-ilp.net/labTechniques/FractionalDistillationlAnimation.htm

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  6. Check out this link for useful information about petroleum refining:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_processes

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