petroleum refinery

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petroleum refinery - a refinery for petroleum oil refinerycat cracker, catalytic cracker - a chemical reactor for converting oils with high boiling points into fuels with lower boiling points in the presence of a catalystrefinery - an industrial plant for purifying a crude substancereformer - an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer"