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Conrad Wegefarth
Conrad Wegefarth was a German-American oil refinery, oil refiner and prospector who helped forge the market for coal oil in Europe. Wegefarth County, Texas was named after him, and he was the father of Harry M. Wegeforth, founder of the San Diego Zoo Global, Zoological Society of San Diego and San Diego Zoo. Biography A court reporter, court stenographer in southwest Germany, Wegefarth traveled over 300 miles on foot through winter snow to stowaway on a ship bound for the United States. Arriving in Baltimore, he traveled by foot to Pittsburgh, where he took a job as a clerk in a dry goods store. Twelve years later he launched his own oil refining business and traveled to London and Paris to demonstrate coal oil lamps, helping to forge the market for coal oil in Europe. Twice a widower, with six sons by his first two marriages, Wegefarth married Mary Elizabeth MacArthur in 1867. The couple settled in Baltimore and had seven children: Sons Arthur, George, Paul, Harry, and Charles; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha. Petrochemicals feedstock like ethylene and propylene can also be produced directly by cracking crude oil without the need of using refined products of crude oil such as naphtha. The crude oil feedstock has typically been processed by an oil production plant. There is usually an oil depot at or near an oil refinery for the storage of incoming crude oil feedstock as well as bulk liquid products. In 2020, the total capacity of global refineries for crude oil was about 101.2 million barrels per day. Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units, such as distillation colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
