oil refinerys

[banjobenne1]

Hello. I am trying to build a refinery for my model railroad club,and I am searching for an diagram/schematic of a basic oil refinery piping system. I have all the basic componets but there is no instructions how to hook them together. Please vist our web site: www.modelengineers.com Thank you

[DSchmitt]

The Plastruct refinery kit is supposed to be an accurate representation.
http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/Action.lasso?-database=PI.PRODUCTS.fp5&-Layout=Complete&-Response=OnlineProductDetail.html&-op=eq&CCode=KIT-1008&-Search

http://www.plastruct.com/

[jrbarney]

Banjonbene,
Here's a link to a keyword search at the Index of Magazines :
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=oil+refinery&MAG=ANY
that yielded 8 apparently pertinent article citations. Have you tried a Google search ?
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[Anonymous]

What exactly are you trying to model? If you are looking for a piping system for tank car loading & unloading, that's a lot different than a cat-cracker, a coker, or a crude unit. Most of the refineries I have been in have rails some distance away from major operating units (which is a bonus for modeling since units are a maze of piping, pumps, heat exchangers, vessels, towers, heaters, ...). Most refineries also have tracks to a warehouse area.

[Derailedtoosoon]

The Plastruct kit looks like a natural gas processing plant to me.

If you want pictures of a real crude oil refinery try this link. Lots of photos.

http://www.energyimages.com/image_results.aspx?EI_CATEGORY=&EI_SUBCATEGORY=refinery

Roy