deasphalter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The underflow from the hydroclones goes to a novel, countercurrent, solvent deasphalter. ln the deasphalter the more polar asphaltenes form a second liquid phase which effectively agglomerates the solids in the oil feed."
- "The increase in deasphalter capacity (it is given in Table 4.8 in absolute terms since the deasphalter capacity in 1977 was zero) indicates that nearly all of the available short residue pool is processed by the deasphalter/catalytic cracker route in order to achieve the desired 1976-77 motor spirit production level, since the available short residue pool, as Table 4.2 shows, is approximately 601 000 X 0.57 X 0.58, or 198 700 b/d."
- "The deasphalter unit is usually placed after the vacuum distillation tower, where, by the use of a low-boiling liquid hydrocarbon solvent, such as propane or butane under pressure, the insoluble asphalt-like product (deasphalter bottoms) is .separated from the feedstock."
Etymology
From de- + asphalt + -er.