Discuss with your classmates the importance of removing sal

* Discuss with your classmates the importance of removing salts during the refining process. Include in your discussion how salt can have an economic impact on the refining operation.

* Your original post should be between 75 - 100 words in length.

Solution

Crude oil introduced to refinery processing contains many undesirable impurities, such as sand, inorganic salts, drilling mud, polymer, corrosion byproduct, etc.

The purpose of desalting is to remove these undesirable impurities, especially salts and water, from the crude oil prior to distillation.

Benefits of Crude Oil Desalting

So the presence of salts in a refinery is a costly affair to deal with.