- Industry: Chemistry
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Chevron Phillips Chemical offers a variety of specialty fuels and fluids including racing fuels, reference fuels, performance fuels, and fire training fluids.
Industry:Energy
Raw materials required for an industrial process. In the chemical industry, common feedstocks include natural gas or natural gas liquids such as naphtha, gas oil, and ethane. Benzene, ethylene, propylene, and other olefins are examples of feedstocks used as the building blocks for the production of value added petrochemicals.
Industry:Energy
A technique for making flat plastic sheet or profiles from a variety of resins. Articles using this technique include containers for food, beverages and personal care items, flat sheets for truck liners, plastic pipe, and large extruded sheets for geomembrane, pipe, and window framing.
Industry:Energy
A type of distillation involving a fractionating column and characterized by use of an additive, often a solvent, which modifies the vaporization characteristics of the materials being processed to make them easier to separate. Example: Extraction of crude xylenes to remove non-aromatics and other impurities.
Industry:Energy
The reaction in which an olefin is converted to a cyclic, three-membered ether, i.e. an epoxide or oxirane
Industry:Energy
The characteristic of a chemical reaction indicating it releases energy, typically in the form of heat.
Industry:Energy
A propriety process for separating p-xylene via adsorption. Chevron Phillips Chemical licenses this process for use in its Pascagoula facility.
Industry:Energy
The characteristic of a chemical reaction indicating it absorbs or uses energy, typically in the form of heat.
Industry:Energy
An intermediate used in the production of styrene. Derived from benzene and ethylene. Also, a non-xylene impurity that is naturally present in mixed xylenes and is also created during its fractionation.
Industry:Energy
Chevron Phillips Chemical’s E-III® FTFs are specially blended fluids that provide a safe and cost-effective way to train firefighters.
Industry:Energy
