This study examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers' evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries. Survey results indicated that higher involvement of HR in organizational strategy was strongly related to perceptions of HR effectiveness, and that...

Palm oil, the commodity produced mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia, is widely used for deep-frying of fast food derivatives. European American markets palm oil are affected by concern toxicity potential from monochloropropanediol esters (MCPDE) glycidyl ester (GE) that undesirably monoacylglycerol (MAG), diacylglycerol (DAG) chlorine refineries. Improvement plantation, fruit harvest extraction p...

A molecule-based characterization methodology was developed for correlation and prediction of assays and properties for crude oil and petroleum fractions. From readily accessible crude oil, the assay data such as distillation curve, API gravity, and PNA contents, identifies an optimal set of chemical compositions of model hydrocarbon molecules that were designed to mimic measurable physical and...

whereas American industry has available large supplies of natural gas; the refiner in the U.S.A. can therefore produce high quality fuels partly by catalytic cracking of heavy distillates, but his European counterpart has no such opportunity and must rely to a much greater extent on catalytic reforming processes to produce high quality fuels from straightrun naphthas. Again, while demand for hi...

The optimal scheduling of crude-oil operations in refineries has been studied by various groups during the past decade leading to different mixed integer linear programming (MILP) or mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulations. This paper presents a new continuous-time formulation, called single-operation sequencing (SOS) model, which can be used to solve the crude-oil operations p...

Oil terminals are widely used to store various liquids and gases. The refinery scheduling problem is one of the most challenging problems in operational research due to the complexity of the refinery scheduling operations and the corresponding process models. In this paper, we present a model by which a decision maker should be able to choose the optimal number of tanks, tank size and truck arr...

Petroleum refineries around the world have generated the solid wastes during the refining process and stocking of crude oil. Oily sludge leads to critical effects in the environment. The ecology of hydrocarbon degradation by microbial populations in the natural environment is reviewed, emphasizing the physical, chemical, and biological factors that contribute to the biodegradation of petroleum ...

The incidence of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) experienced by cohorts of 16,467 petroleum distribution workers and 28,554 oil refinery workers has been investigated. Study subjects were all those male employees first employed at one of 476 UK petroleum distribution centres or eight UK oil refineries in the period 1946-1974; all subjects had a minimum of twelve months employment with some emplo...

Pipelines constitute the dominant inland transportation mode for crude oil and oil products. Lots of refined products such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel are shipped from refineries and seaports to truck-loading terminals by multiproduct pipelines. Planning the operation of multiproduct pipelines is a very difficult task demanding efficient tools to get safe, on-time, low-cost and high-qualit...

Air concentrations of and inhalation exposure to total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and benzene was monitored separately at two oil refineries from 1977 to 2014. Prevention policies and control measures that may explain changes were surveyed. The aim was to evaluate how the application of of Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series OHSAS 18001.04 principles as well as Environmental prot...