If staying on top of the latest developments in the petroleum refining process industry is part of your work, here’s the one-stop resource you need. Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes delivers comprehensive coverage of how major players like UOP, KBR, STRATCO, Belco, Stone & Webster, Foster Wheeler, Chevron Lummus Global, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco, and Shell, are taking these processes to new heights through technology.

Thoroughly revised and expanded this new edition of the Handbook of Petroleum Processes features new chapters that focus on the technological, pollution-control, and economic aspects of 61 petroleum refining processes as created by a host of industry powerhouses.

Technologies covered include:
• Alkylation and Polymerization • Base Aromatics Production Processes • Catalytic Cracking • Catalytic Reforming • Dehydrogenation • Hydrogen Production • Hydrocracking • Hydrotreating • Isomerization • Separation Processes • Sulfur Compound Extraction and Sweetening • Visbreaking and Coking • Oxygenates Production Technologies • Hydrogen Processing • Gas to Liquids Technologies

Estimates of capital and operating costs are provided, along with information on the design of additions to existing refineries and the construction of new ones.

Contents:

• CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• LICENSING CONTRACTS
• Part 1: Alkylation and Polymerization
• Part 2: Base Aromatics Production Processes
• Part 3: Catalytic Cracking
• Part 4: Catalytic Reforming
• Part 5: Dehydrogenation
• Part 6: Hydrogen Production
• Part 7: Hydrocracking
• Part 8: Hydrotreating
• Part 9: Isomerization
• Part 10: Separation Processes
• Part 11: Sulfur Compound Extraction and Sweetening
• Part 12: Visbreaking and Coking
• Part 13: Oxygenates Production Technologies
• Part 14: Hydrogen Processing
• Part 15: Gas to Liquids Technologies
• GLOSSARY
• ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
• INDEX

900 Pages/Hardcover/September 2003
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0-07139-109-6