Smolan, Kansas. Smolan is a city in Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 215.
Moghissi: Internal corrosion is one of many possible threats to a crude oil transmission pipeline that must be managed. It should be noted that crude oil by itself is not corrosive at pipeline conditions, but water can drop out of the crude oil and allow corrosion to occur where it accumulates. Water carried by heavy crude oils, including dilbit, does not significantly differ in corrosivity from water carried by other crudes.
From Crude Oil. The oil refining process starts with a fractional distillation column. The problem with crude oil is that it contains hundreds of different types of hydrocarbons all mixed together. You have to separate the different types of hydrocarbons to have anything useful.Fortunately there is an easy way to separate things, and this is what oil refining is all about.o understand the diversity contained in crude oil, and to understand why refining crude oil is so important in our society, look through the following list of products that come from crude oil: Petroleum gas-used for heating, cooking, making plastics. 1  small alkanes (1 to 4 carbon atoms).