Refining

Diesel or gasoline; which is better for me? With today’s advances in technology and engineering, the decision is not as easy as one may think. There are several considerations to evaluate and weigh before making the decision to buy a diesel or gasoline powered vehicle. The following essay provides a short history of each while providing key facts to inform a prospective buyer which is better for him or her. History of the diesel and gasoline engine: The first diesel engine was invented by Rudolf

Downstream – From Refinery to Customer The downstream sector encompasses the refining, storage, distribution and marketing of petroleum products: • Refining Process: Crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products; • Storage: The products from the refining process are stored at depots via pipeline, land (trucks & rail) and sea (barge/vessel). These storage facilities are also called tank farms or terminals • Distribution and Marketing: Petroleum products are distributed

One part of the reading that interested me was the discussion of the difficulties farmers faced that hunter-gatherers didn't. I think that most people currently alive today believe farming to have been hugely advantageous to humans (and it certainly was) but we rarely talk about the ways in which relying on farming disadvantaged them. For example, their limited diets left early farmers prone to nutritional deficiencies, unlike hunter-gatherers who had diverse diets. In addition, the farmers' crops

The modern sugar industry began with Christopher Columbus, the misguided sailor who set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, westward toward China on August 3, 1492. He got as far as Cuba. As planned, Columbus landed at the Canary Islands a short time after leaving Spain, to load up provisions, however Columbus fell in love with the land's ruler, the beautiful Beatriz de Bobadilla y Ossorio. They had a month-long affair before he finally sailed away. She gave as a gift some sugarcane cuttings,

Mr. Warren telling me that my essay was ‘subpar’ and ‘required a lot of refining’ but the thing that

Canada has a long history in mining of a number of minerals which include copper, nickel, Uranium, potash, gold and diamonds among others. It also has a refining industry which makes it a producer of aluminium and refined copper and nickel. Foreign capital has always played a role in the development of the mining industry until recently when the domestically controlled companies have begun to play a more significant role. The mining industry has once being under a brief wave of nationalisation which

The New Age and Contributions Made After the infamous American Civil War concluded on May 9, 1865, many advancements were made for the next 35 years that shaped the nation into what it is today. A large portion of these contributions are credited to African Americans, who have impacted American history through migration, politics, military, education, and innovation. -- As the Reconstruction Era began in 1865, immediate action was seen from Congress to abolish slavery. The 13th Amendment was passed

April 29th, 2017 I attended a live performance at Marygrove college titled ‘New heights.’ The variations of styles and meaning behind the choreography kept me wanting more. While some acts were very facile to comprehend, others bemused me, but all together it was prodigious. The clothing, the background lights, the music, and the prosthetics brought the whole show together. I was intrigued with every last performance that day. As stated before the meaning behind some of the performances were not

Celsius. But if inhaled, it can cause complications that can lead to fatalities. Hexane comes from refining crude oil or petroleum. Petroleum is any naturally-occurring mixture of hydrocarbons found in geologic formations such as rock strata. Rock strata, being the horizontal layers in rocks you see in canyons or where the ground has been dug into to unveil all the layers in the earth. The refining or processing of the petroleum

This act didn’t cause any influencial effect on trusts but brought a Supreme Court case United States v. E.C. Knight Company. The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the other defendants in the case, had not violated the law even though the company controlled about 98 percent of all sugar refining in the United States. The Court opinion reasoned that the company’s control of manufacture did not constitute a control of trade. The Court’s ruling in E. C. Knight seemed