petrochemist

(ˌpɛtrəʊˈkɛmɪst)

(Chemistry) someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry

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Petrochemist Dean Cogings has started up a "Wagner to Win" page on Facebook, which he reckons is helping the singer stay in the show.

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In...refining, the goal is to optimize the yields, to limit the treating plant discharges and, at the end of the chain, to increase the efficiency of the equipments (boilers, motors,...) and to provide refiners and petrochemists with processes allowing to produce at low cost and while respecting the environment, the fuels and the petrochemical bases required for anticipating the evolution of the demand and of the regulations (product specifications, discharges).