Hydroskimming

Hydroskimming is a refining configuration that consists only of atmospheric distillation, reforming, and hydrotreating.

It gets its name from having a reformer ("hydroskimmer") as its only real conversion unit.

Hydroskimming is a very simple configuration and is therefore often the marginal configuration in a market with a lot of simple refineries.

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