AUTHORS: LEFFLER, WILLIAM L.
ISBN: 9781593701581
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.
270 Pages/Hardcover/6x9/November 2008
Table of 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
