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Kent Refinery, the Glossary

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  1. 30 relations: A228 road, Admiralty (United Kingdom), Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Argyll oil field, BP, Catalytic reforming, Distillation, Esso, Fawley Refinery, Fluid catalytic cracking, Fractionation, Fuller's earth, Grain LNG Terminal, Grain Power Station, Historic England, Historic England Archive, Isle of Grain, Isopentane, Kerosene, Liquefied natural gas, London Thamesport, Lubricant, North Sea flood of 1953, Oil refinery, Operation Pluto, Petrochemical industry, Sheerness Dockyard, Sulfur dioxide, Thames Estuary, United Kingdom.

  2. BP buildings and structures
  3. Economy of Kent
  4. Energy infrastructure completed in 1952
  5. Oil refineries in the United Kingdom
  6. Ports and harbours of Kent
  7. Science and technology in Kent

A228 road

The A228 road is an important transport artery in Kent, England.

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Admiralty (United Kingdom)

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Anglo-Persian Oil Company

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia (Iran). Kent Refinery and Anglo-Persian Oil Company are history of the petroleum industry in the United Kingdom.

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Argyll oil field

The Argyll oil field is a depleted crude oil field in the UK sector of the central North Sea, 310 km east-south-east of Aberdeen.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Catalytic reforming

Catalytic reforming is a chemical process used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas distilled from crude oil (typically having low octane ratings) into high-octane liquid products called reformates, which are premium blending stocks for high-octane gasoline.

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Distillation

Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.

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Esso

Esso is a trading name for ExxonMobil.

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Fawley Refinery

Fawley Refinery is an oil refinery located at Fawley, Hampshire, England. Kent Refinery and Fawley Refinery are oil refineries in the United Kingdom.

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Fluid catalytic cracking

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the conversion process used in petroleum refineries to convert the high-boiling point, high-molecular weight hydrocarbon fractions of petroleum (crude oils) into gasoline, alkene gases, and other petroleum products.

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Fractionation

Fractionation is a separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture (of gasses, solids, liquids, enzymes, or isotopes, or a suspension) is divided during a phase transition, into a number of smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition varies according to a gradient.

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Fuller's earth

Fuller's earth is a term for various clays used as an absorbent, filter, or bleaching agent.

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Grain LNG Terminal

Grain LNG Terminal is a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal on the Isle of Grain, 37 miles (60 km) east of London.

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Grain Power Station

Grain Power Station is a operational CCGT power station in Kent, England, owned by Uniper (formerly E.ON UK). It was also the name of an oil-fired, now demolished, 1,320MW power station in operation from 1979 to 2012.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Historic England Archive

The Historic England Archive is the public archive of Historic England, located in The Engine House on Fire Fly Avenue in Swindon, formerly part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway.

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Isle of Grain

Isle of Grain (Old English Greon, meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent, south-east England.

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Isopentane

Isopentane, also called methylbutane or 2-methylbutane, is a branched-chain saturated hydrocarbon (an alkane) with five carbon atoms, with formula or.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.

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London Thamesport

London Thamesport (formerly just "Thamesport") was a small container seaport on the River Medway, serving the North Sea. Kent Refinery and London Thamesport are Ports and harbours of Kent.

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Lubricant

A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.

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North Sea flood of 1953

The 1953 North Sea flood (Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England and Scotland.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Operation Pluto

Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War.

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Petrochemical industry

Jampilen Petrochemical co., Asaluyeh, Iran The petrochemical industry is concerned with the production and trade of petrochemicals.

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Sheerness Dockyard

Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent.

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Sulfur dioxide

Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Thames Estuary

The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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See also

BP buildings and structures

Economy of Kent

Energy infrastructure completed in 1952

Oil refineries in the United Kingdom

Ports and harbours of Kent

Science and technology in Kent

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Refinery