TABLES. Page. TABLE 1. Daily plant temperatures, conventional stills, Avon refinery....... 7 8 11 12 5. Average residuum and crude-oil temperatures in the heat exchangers 14 6. Quality of crude oil refined and of fuel consumed in crude stills and 28 7. Barrels of distillate run and products made in steam and combus- 8. Cost of constructing Bell topping plant, Avon refinery...... 9. Results of analyses of flue gas in Bell topping plant, Avon refinery. 11. Cost of refinery operation and repairs, I. W. Fuqua plant.. 15. Fuel required to top oils of various water contents, I. W. Fuqua 16. Three months' record of crude run and products made in 1912 at 17. Three months' record of heat exchangers, Avila plant, 1912.... 19. Record of plant operation, 1917, Prutzman topping plant.. 88 91 21. Products and fuel consumption at the Vernon refinery. 103 108 23. Operating costs of the Vernon topping plant, November and De- 103 24. Comparison of plant temperatures for months of July (to 18th) and 118 25. Record of operation of Trumble plant at Coalinga during four months 121 26. Results of laboratory and of refinery distillations, Trumble refinery 122 27. Plant temperatures at Trumble plant, Coalinga...... 122 28. Record of heat exchangers, Trumble topping plant at Coalinga.. 125 148 152 31. Summary of topping-plant records showing fuel consumption and 153 VIII |