Vocabulary

1) to get interested in – заинтересоваться

2) to supply – снабжать, обеспечивать

3) bits of equipment – зд. детали оборудования (части оборудования)

4) to set up – проводить

5) firmly – твердо

6) general engineering – общетехнический

7) major – главный

8) graduate from – выпускаться из

9) to be taught – обучаться

10) strenght of materials – сопротивление материалов

11) sound – глубокий

12) to look forward to – ожидать с нетерпением

13) deal with – иметь дело с; иметь отношение к

14) by the way – кстати

15) to be good at - успевать по

My future speciality

I am a first (second) - year student of the Ufa Oil University. I study at the faculty of "Chemical Technology of Organic Substances and Compounds". I am very fond of chemistry. I wish to become a specialist in petroleum refinery engineering¹. Students entering our faculty may specialize in various branches, such as organic synthesis, reception of rubber and other compounds of petroleum.

I wish to become a specialist in petroleum refinery engineering. Those who will choose the branch of petroleum and refining engineering will deal with designing and operating various plants with work at research institutes and laboratories. Besides practicing in the Institute laboratories students of our department are to get some practical training at various refineries of the country.

A refinery is a huge chemical enterprise². Distillation units³ are the heart of the refinery, every distillation unit consists of at least two distillation towers⁴, a tube still⁵, heat exchangers⁶, pumps⁷, etc.

One of the distillation towers is operated at atmospheric pressure, the other one is operated at vacuum. Pumps deliver⁸ preheated crude oil to the tube still where it is heated to 360°C at atmospheric pressure. Heated oil is then passed through the distillation tower. Lighter hydrocarbon vapours flown up the tower, are removed at different levels and condense⁹ in specials coolers.

Heavier fractions are accumulated at the bottom as residue¹⁰, which undergoes further dissipation¹¹ in the vacuum tower.

Within the refinery one may see many other installations for cracking, dehydrogenation, refining and alkalizing huge storage vessel pumping stations, etc. All the units are remotely¹² controlled from a single centre.

The whole process of obtaining valuable products from crude oil is called refining. As a result of refining a great variety of products is obtained, such as gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, lubricating oils¹³, fuels, coke, paraffin and gas for synthesis of petrochemicals and many others.

Vocabulary

1) petroleum refinery engineering – нефтеочистительное производство

2) a huge chemical enterprise – огромное химическое предприятие

3) distillation units – дистилляционное оборудование

4) a tower – башня

5) a tube still – труба

6) heat exchangers – теплообменники

7) a pump – насос

8) to deliver – доставлять, передавать

9) to condense – оседать

10) residue – осадок

11) dissipation – рассеивание

12) remotely – отдалённо

13) lubricating oils - смазочные масла