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Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language, Fourth Edition
Item# 9781593701581
Brand: PennWell
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.
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Contents:

  • Preface
  • The evolution of petroleum refining
  • From the oil P\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