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A refinery is composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations used for refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.

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Oil refinery: Converts petroleum crude oil into automotive fuels (gasoline/petrol and diesel oil), liquefied petroleum gases, jet aircraft fuel, heating fuel oils, asphalt and petroleum coke.

Sugar refinery: Converts sugar cane and sugar beets into crystallized sugar and sugar syrups.

Natural gas processing plant: Purifies and converts raw natural gas into residential, commercial and industrial fuel gas, and also recovers natural gas liquids (NGL).

Alumina refinery: Converts bauxite ore (also known as alumina or aluminium oxide) into aluminium metal.

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Distillation towers and other pressure vessels

Storage tanks

Pumps and compressors

Steam turbines and gas turbines

Furnaces and steam generators

Electric power generators, transformers and electric motors

Filters

Centrifuges

Evaporators and crystallizers

Electrolysis cells

Piping and valves

Cooling towers

Mixers and blenders

Crushers

Monitoring and control systems

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Alumina

Bagasse

Bayer process and Hall-Héroult process (used to produce aluminium from bauxite ore)

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

Liquefied petrolem gas (LPG)

Natural gas

Oil refinery

Petroleum

Sugar cane

Sugar beet