Coker units recover valuable elements, including petroleum coke, from residual oil or pitch through thermal cracking. The coke is collected in a drum and ejected by water jets for further processing into fuel or anode grade products. A coker unit is a thermal cracking process in the petroleum refinery industry used to recover valuable elements, […]
Retarded coker is a refining process that breaks down residual petroleum byproducts into useful fuels. It was patented in 1891 and improved in 1913. The process produces petroleum coke, which can be used as a fuel source but is highly polluting. The process operates at high temperatures and can use various feedstocks. Visbreaking is a […]
