Coker

Last year, Valero was delayed in restarting a processing unit, called a coker, that was idled for maintenance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At least one of about 30 "serious" investors lined up to bid on the property have expressed interest in buying an important piece of machinery called a coker, Big West union official Ed Huhn said last week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Certain process units will be shut down at the west-side of the refinery, but will have no impact on the capacity of its coker or fluid catalytic cracker, a key-gasoline production unit. ❋ Naureen S. Malik (2011)

In thy county town how many die from going bat out of hell, pouring rot gut, snorting coker leaf, versus succumbing to the sniffles. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

The partnership owns a 70,000-barrel-a-day delayed coker at a Conoco refinery in southeast Texas, which allows the facility to process Venezuelan heavy crude oil. ❋ Dan Molinski (2010)

"Shutting down the coker and gasifier complex at Delaware City will reduce costs, improve reliability and allow the refinery to run a lighter crude slate and shift production to higher-margin products," said Chief Executive Bill Klesse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I used to do I don't have a pressure cooker with me anymore here in Shanghai is just put the pressure coker in the sink under the faucet and just let the cold water do it's job.. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2009)

In June 2005, ENAP announced that it would build a $430 million delayed coker plant at its Aconcagua refinery, with planned start-up in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The mixture is passed from the heater to one or more coker drums where the hot material is held approximately 24 hours (delayed) at pressures of 25-75 psi, until it cracks into lighter products. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Coking produces straight-run gasoline (coker naphtha) and various middle-distillate fractions used as catalytic cracking feedstock. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A coker uses the heaviest output of distillation — the residue or residuum — to produce a lighter feedstock for further processing, as well as petroleum coke. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For the victims took them at their word, and so by the time the perspiring Platoon Commanders had produced their returns (in triplicate) it was found that there were forty-three subjects to be provided for, including seven languages, six branches of science, four kinds of engineering, six commercial subjects and various sundries, such as metaphysics, wool-classing and coker-nut planting. ❋ Various (N/A)

Corn-growing in Western Canada, sheep-raising in Australia and coker-nut planting are all obviously agriculture. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is principally manufactured from coker-nut oil, although other similar, if less offensive, substances are sometimes employed. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is darker in color than the oil of _L. vera_, and much less grateful in odor, reminding one of turpentine and rancid coker nut oil. ❋ Various (N/A)

He sits between them after evening stables, smoking his pipe and fancying himself back in Zanzibar; he expects the coker-nuts along about August, he tells me. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Right-o," cried Glanedale with a laugh, and a moment later he was shinning up the further pipe with the agility of a South Sea islander after coker-nuts. ❋ Herbert George Jenkins (1899)

"_Patti-coker_ -- what you s'pose?" was the rash reply. ❋ Sophie May (1869)

There was a canvas screen, eight feet high, stretched as a background to stop the sticks hurled by the players at "coker-nuts," while the nuts themselves, each resting on a stick five feet high, looked like disconsolate and starved spectres, waiting to be cruelly treated. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)