Description
Great resource for in-house training, academic courses, and self-study!
William Leffler's Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language, Fourth Edition is designed to give the reader an overview of key refining topics by using relevant analogies, easy-to-understand graphs, formulas, and illustrations. New to this edition is important information on the nature of crude oil and raw materials and a comprehensive discussion on what sets crude oil and oil products price differentials. Also new is a chapter on lubricants as well as the latest technologies employed by refiners. Each chapter was carefully written in nontechnical language to give the reader a basic understanding of the refining industry. The book can be used for self-study, as a classroom textbook, or as a quick reference.
Contents:
- Preface
- The evolution of petroleum refining
- From the oil patch to the refinery
- Crude oil characteristics
- Distilling
- Vacuum flashing
- The chemistry of petroleum
- Refinery gas plants
- Cat cracking
- Alkylation
- Cat reforming
- Hydrocracking
- Isomerization
- Residue reduction
- Gasoline
- Distillate and residual fuels
- Hydrogen, hydrotreating, and sulfur plants
- Asphalt
- Lubricants
- Ethylene plants
- Simple and complex refineries
- Solvent recovery of aromatics
- Fuel values-heating values
- Answers to the exercises
- Glossary
- Index
270 Pages/eBook/November 2008
ISBN10 1-59370-158-6
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