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.
The density or gravity of crude oil is important to the refining process in seve ral. ways. As mentioned above, when the mixture of compounds in crude oil is. heated, lighter hydrocarbon compounds will begin to vaporize (turn into gas), and heavier compounds will not.