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The petroleum sector is possibly the largest and most dominant economic sector, yet there is no appropriate tool or guideline available in achieving sustainability in this sector. There is not even a single book available to address how to achieve sustainability or to conform with the essential features of the Information Age. This is the first book in the petroleum sector that sheds light on the real obstacles to sustainable development and provides solutions to each problem encountered. Each solution is complete with an economic analysis that clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is diminished. The new screening tools and models proposed in this book will provide one with proper guidelines to achieve true sustainability in both technology development and management of the petroleum sector. ... Read more

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Based on the classic Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Second Edition, the Working Guide to Petroleum and Natural Gas Production Engineering begins with an extensive overview of the basic principles, definitions, and data. Later chapters cover properties of hydrocarbon mixtures, flow natural flow of fluids, natural flow performance, artificial lift methods and corrosion and scaling. This book provides engineers with a bases for understanding important concepts such a flow phenomena, hydrate formation, pressure (surge) waves, or high viscosity liquid flow failure. The focus of book is to assist the reader to understand and avoid potential operational challenges and design effective solutions and operational responses.

• Evaluate well inflow performance


• Guide to properties of hydrocarbon mixtures


• Evaluate Gas production and processing facilities

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 Reorganized for easy use, Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition provides an up-to-date reference to the tools, techniques, and science for predicting oil reservoir performance even in the most difficult fields.

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This book on PVT and Phase Behaviour Of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids is volume 47 in the Developments in Petroleum Science series. The chapters in the book are: Phase Behaviour Fundamentals, PVT Tests and Correlations, Phase Equilibria, Equations of State, Phase Behaviour Calculations, Fluid Characterisation, Gas Injection, Interfacial Tension, and Application in Reservoir Simulation. ... Read more

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The petroleum industry must minimize the environmental impact of its various operations.This extensively researched book assembles a tremendous amount of practical information to help reduce and control the environmental consequences of producing and processing petroleum and natural gas.

The best way to treat pollution is not to create it in the first place.This book shows you how to plan and manage production activities to minimize and even eliminate some environmental problems without severely disrupting operations.


It focuses on ways to treat drilling and production wastes to reduce toxicity and/or volume before their ultimate disposal.You'll also find methods for safely transporting toxic materials from the upstream petroleum industry away from their release sites.For those sites already contaminated with petroleum wastes, this book reviews the remedial technologies available.Other topics include United States federal environmental regulations, sensitive habitats, major U.S. chemical waste exchanges, and offshore releases of oil.

Environmental Control in Petroleum Engineering is essential for industry personnel with little or no training in environmental issues as well as petroleum engineering students.
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Text overviews the business, engineering, and technology of deepwater petroleum exploration and production. Provides coverage of all aspects of deepwater operations: including historic background; drilling and completing wells; development systems; fixed structures; floating production systems; subsea systems; topsides; and pipelines, flowlines, and risers. ... Read more

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Good, crisp account
Gives a well-condensed account of what deepwater petroleum exploration and production is all about. A good read.

Too Little
The book was too short, too old, and too simple.Definitely not worth the price

Just the right balance between brevity and detail
Leffler, Pattarozzi, and Sterling have produced a useful and interesting book about the challenge of drilling for oil at incredible depths beneath the ocean.The book strikes just the right balance, as both a brief overview of the industry and a detailed look at essential concepts of deepwater exploration and production.

This book begins with a brief history of oil exploration, both onshore and offshore.Throughout, the authors provide boxes with interesting facts and background material that help maintain the reader's interest. Some boxes are stories of innovations in the field (such as John Chance's invention of a system to "decode" the jittered government GPS data) whlie other boxes explain some of the unfamiliar terms of the oilfield world, like use of "Christmas Tree" for a certain piece of equipment and the use of unusual names for oilfield leases (such as "Bullwinkle" and "Cognac").

My only dissatisfaction with the book is the lack of a bibliography to assist the reader in finding more information on certain subjects covered.Also, the index should include more key names and terms.(For example, the name John Chance is not in the index despite the fact that his discovery is mentioned in a supplemental box.)I like any book that I read to have an extensive index so that I can quickly return to interesting passages.

The book is a relatively quick read.In just one day I read about one-third of the book (well into Chapter 4).The book assumes that the reader has little technical knowledge (but at least some technical interest) and would be a good introduction to the oilfield terminology and concepts, especially for nontechnical personnel who have to work with the engineers and geologists.(For the record, I am a civil engineer, and I worked a little with the oil industry in the past.My current interest is in the creative aspects of design and innovation.)

Broad, concise, and interesting
This is a good place to start if you're looking for a very general introduction to deepwater exploration and production (E&P).Almost nothing gets a lot of detail, but almost nothing is omitted.The chapters cover the following topics:

1 - history of offshore drilling
2 - the move into deeper and deeper water in the eighties
3 - exploration
4 - drilling and completion
5 - development systems
6 - fixed structures -- compliant towers, concrete, etc.
7 - floating systems -- TLPs, FPSOs, spars, and so on
8 - subsea systems
9 - topsides
10 - piplines, flowlines, and risers
11 - technology and the future

The writing is sound, and there are plenty of decent graphics -- pictures of the gigantic Bullwinkle platform; photographs and schematics of equipment and layouts; and a couple of colour plates showing seismic analysis displays.The chapters are really just overviews -- although there's a fair amount of detail in some areas, particularly in platform construction and assembly, there is so much to say that they can't do more than scratch the surface.

The book does give you quite a lot of vocabulary to work with, which is valuable.There are a multitude of online oil and gas glossaries that you might want to search for via the web, but the narrative form that this book provides is a pretty good way to understand them too.

If you are new to E&P and would like a good overview, this is a pretty good place to start, but it won't take you very far in any one direction. ... Read more

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In this important new book, Mohan Kelkar, a respected author and professor, presents the quintessential guide for gas engineers, emphasizing the practical aspects of natural gas production. Readers will learn to incorporate cutting-edge research in estimating reserves, evaluating the performance of fractured wells, processing gas, and material balance analysis; learn to evaluate future performance of gas reservoirs; learn to improve the performance of gas wells; and more. ... Read more

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This Second Edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology is completely updated and revised to reflect the vast changes in the field in the fifteen years since publication of the First Edition. This book is a usefulprimer for geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum engineers in the oil industry who wish to expand their knowledge beyond their specialized area. It is also an excellent introductory text for a university course in petroleum geoscience.
Elements of Petroleum Geology begins with an account of the physical and chemical properties of petroleum, reviewing methods of petroleum exploration and production. These methods include drilling, geophysical exploration techniques, wireline logging, and subsurface geological mapping. After describing the temperatures and pressures of the subsurface environment and the hydrodynamics of connate fluids, Selley examines the generation and migration of petroleum, reservoir rocks and trapping mechanisms, and the habit of petroleum in sedimentary basins. The book contains an account of the composition and formation of tar sands and oil shales, and concludes with a brief review of prospect risk analysis, reserve estimation, and other economic topics.


* Updates the First Edition completely
* Reviews the concepts and methodology of petroleum exploration and production
* Written by a preeminent petroleum geologist and sedimentologist with 30 years of petroleum exploration in remote corners of the world
* Contains information pertinent to geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum reservoir engineers ... Read more

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Great intro book
This was my first introduction into the world of Petroleum Geology. I had already studied most geology in undergraduate, and used this book for an independent study in Petroleum Geology. Read it all the way through and to this day look back and realize how good of a foundation it was. Covers everything it needs to in a very readable format with good examples and illustrations.

One of the Best
Good beginners and professionalpetroleum geology book! I work full time for a private oil company and use this book everyday!

Good Introductory Text
This book is an easy to read and offers a full coverage of topics in Petroleum Geology. I used and use it, amongst others, as a first reference to refresh my memory, before returning to work as an exploration geophysicist.

good introduction book
nice book for introduction. a little bit too much detail though.
I usually scan the book first and come back to read the details.

Elements of Petroleum Geology, Second Edition
This is a great book for any scientist interested in gaining knowledge of petroleum geology. ... Read more

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Petroleum refiners must face billion-dollar investments in equipment in order to meet ever-changing environmental requirements. Because the design and construction of new processing units entail several years’ lead time, refiners are reluctant to commit these dollars for equipment that may no longer meet certain conditions when the units come on stream.

Written by experts with both academic and professional experience in refinery operation, design, and evaluation, Petroleum Refining Technology and Economics, Fifth Edition is an essential textbook for students and a vital resource for engineers. This latest edition of a bestselling text provides updated data and addresses changes in refinery feedstock, product distribution, and processing requirements resulting from federal and state legislation.

Providing a detailed overview of today’s integrated fuels refinery, the book discusses each major refining process as they relate to topics such as feedstock preparation, operating costs, catalysts, yields, finished product properties, and economics. It also contains end-of-chapter problems and an ongoing case study. ... Read more

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Refining Consultant
My husband is in the refining consultant business and to him this book is one of the best summary of all important technology and economics matters related to petroleum refining.

A review of the state of petroleum refining as of 1984
This is the second edition of a review book on petroleum refining that technology and economics.The table of contents is:
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Refinery Products
3. Refinery Feedstocks
4. Crude Distillation
5. Coking and Thermal Processes
6. Catalytic Reforming and Isomerization
7. Catalytic Cracking
8. Hydrotreating
9. Catalytic Hydrocracking and Hydroprocessing
10.Alkylation and Polymerization
11.Product Blending
12.Supporting Processes
13.Lubricating Oils
14.Petrochemical Feedstocks
15.Cost Estimation
16.Economic Evaluation
Appendicies
Definition of Refining Terms
Physical Properties
Catalyst Costs
U.S. Bureau of Mines Routine Analyses of Selected Crude Oils
Economic Evaluation Example Problem
Photographs
Yield and Cost Data Figures
Author Index
Subject Index.

The book is 10.25 inches by 7.5 inches by 1.0 inches.414 pages.

Best text for refinery process engineering --- not saying much
Oddly, only one reference book proved adequate, in my opinion, in explaining refinery science: "William Leffler's "Petroleum Refining." The others, including "Petroleum Refining, Technology and Economics," by James Gary, Glenn Handwerk, and Mark Kaiser, "Refining Processes Handbook," by Surinder Parkash, and even the venerable "Petroleum Processing Handbook," by Bland and Davidson. Leffler wins out because his process descriptions are fairly detailed compared to the others while balancing a need to be understood by the non-technically educated. Where this text, by Gary, Handwerk, and Kaiser fails is its lack of detailed process design information.

For example, I was somewhat disappointed in the section on hydrotreating. This process involves removal of nitrogen and sulfur and alkylation of alkenes, phenols and benzenes from a feed of gas oils recovered from a pipestill. Tables provided showed the expected performance for the catalyst beds; some discussion was presented of the differences between fixed bed reactors and moving bed reactors. Only scant information was provided on reactor design. Even though it might have risked going into detail about a particular catalyst at the expense of others there was no exploration beyond mere statements of information such as hydrogen consumption and space velocity requirements. A good example of the failure to provide detail design information is the authors' reluctance to provide hydrogen consumption information in section 9.5.

Instead, the reader is referred to a monograph written by W.L. Nelson in 1971 for the Oil and Gas Journal. Why not present the data?

This situation highlights the primary problem with this text and the others: a lack of process design information. This book would have to grow by another hundred pages to meet his ambitions goal of providing a good reference for petroleum refining. Only Leffler meets this goal ¯ and, he does it without the science and engineering required in the other references.

Unless you want incomplete details on the subject of petroleum refining, buy Leffler, not this text. However, of the others, this is a good reference book for the subject. Be prepared to fill in the copious quantities of gaps in information. Maybe, you should buy Leffler and this text.

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Good Enough but not deep
Oddly, only one reference book proved adequate, in my opinion, in explaining refinery science: "William Leffler's "Petroleum Refining." The others, including "Petroleum Refining, Technology and Economics," by James Gary, Glenn Handwerk, and Mark Kaiser, "Refining Processes Handbook," by Surinder Parkash, and even the venerable "Petroleum Processing Handbook," by Bland and Davidson. Leffler wins out because his process descriptions are fairly detailed compared to the others. Where this text, by Gary, Handwerk, and Kaiser fails is its lack of detailed process design information.

For example, I was somewhat disappointed in the section on hydrotreating. This process involves removal of nitrogen and sulfur and alkylation of alkenes, phenols and benzenes from a feed of gas oils recovered from a pipestill. Tables provided showed the expected performance for the catalyst beds; some discussion was presented of the differences between fixed bed reactors and moving bed reactors. Only scant information was provided on reactor design. Even though it might have risked going into detail about a particular catalyst at the expense of others there was no exploration beyond mere statements of information such as hydrogen consumption and space velocity requirements. A good example of the failure to provide detail design information is the authors' reluctance to provide hydrogen consumption information in section 9.5.

Instead, the reader is referred to a monograph written by W.L. Nelson in 1971 for the Oil and Gas Journal. Why not present the data?

This situation highlights the primary problem with this text and the others: a lack of process design information. This book would have to grow by another hundred pages to meet his ambitions goal of providing a good reference for petroleum refining. Only Leffler meets this goal ¯ and, he does it without the science and engineering required in the other references.

Unless you want incomplete details on the subject of petroleum refining, buy Leffler, not this text. However, of the others, this is a good reference book for the subject. Be prepared to fill in the copious quantities of gaps in information. Maybe, you should buy Leffler and this text.

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Excellent overview
I am an investment analyst and used this book to get up to speed on an unfamiliar industry.I found it to be clear, well organized, and containing all the info I needed to understand the dynamics driving the business and the lingo.There was more engineering and scientific info than I needed for my purposes, but it was useful to thumb through those chapters to get a high level understanding of the issues.Highly recommended for people new to the industry. ... Read more

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Just what I needed
I'm an IT professional who works in the E&P industry and this book has been excellent addition to library.

This is the best E&P Dictionary you will ever get !
This book is full of clear and complete definitions of most of the terminology used in the Oil business.It also have lots of illustrations. It is very hard not to find what you are looking for.Excellent for peoplethat intiates in the Oil business. ... Read more

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Provides an organized explanation of economics evaluations for single processes and complete refineries. Explains how to use yield data, properties of products, and operating and capital costs in economic evaluation. A simplified process flow diagram and a brief description of the process is given for each process yield correlation. DLC: Petroleum--Refining. ... Read more

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What a disappointment
When I read the abstract for this book I thougth I would pick up some information or process description that would help pick out the most economical scheme to process a given feedstock. Instead what I got was mostly a rehash of what I can get from Hydrocarbon processing without any hard numbers or equations to use. The author spends most of the time describing databases of process inoformation he has collected and how he went about correlating the results, but without ever bothering to print the correlations that were developed. Instead you get tables comparing the authors correlations to other correlations which also are not published. This does nothing to help you know how to predict the performance of a unit. ... Read more

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Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining provides a thorough and balanced introduction to refinery engineering topics, from basic concepts and unit operations to overall refinery economics, planning and control. Based on the fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics, the text develops the scientific background needed to understand refinery operations, provides an in depth description of major refinery processes, and then assimilates an integrated refinery by focusing on the economic and operational aspects for enhancing performance and profitability.
The book is mainly directed to undergraduate and graduate students in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Technology. It is also directed to new engineering college graduates who are starting their career in oil and gas industry. For experienced engineers and managers, this book is ideal for acquiring the necessary background in this area and following up with new topics in refining industry.
The book includes topics such as clean fuels, gasification, biofuels, automation, environmental impacts as well as planning and scheduling of refinery operations.
Throughout, the book provides numerous opportunities to put fundamental refining principles into practice.

- Provides balanced coverage of fundamental and operational topics
- Includes spreadsheets and process simulators for showing trends and simulation case studies
- Relates processing to planning and management to give an integrated picture of refining ... Read more

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This text contains the first comprehensive presentation of methods and algorithms used in basin modeling. It provides geoscientists and geophysicists with an extensive in-depth view of the theory behind the models. Heat flow analysis, chemical kinetics of petroleum generation, pressure analysis, PVT modeling and several fluid flow models are discussed in detail. Advanced topics such as probabilistic methods for risk assessment or new approaches such as modeling of migration with invasion percolation are also included. Comprehensive lists of rock and fluid properties and parameters of geochemical kinetics make the book a unique reference in geological process modeling.

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Geostatistics is a common tool in reservoir characterisation.Several texts discuss the subject, however this book differs in its approach and audience from currently available material.Written from the basics of statistics it covers only those topics that are needed for the two goals of the text:to exhibit the diagnostic potential of statistics and to introduce the important features of statistical modeling. This revised edition contains expanded discussions of some materials, in particular conditional probabilities, Bayes Theorem, correlation, and Kriging.The coverage of estimation, variability, and modeling applications have been updated.Seventy examples illustrate concepts and show the role of geology for providing important information for data analysis and model building.Four reservoir case studies conclude the presentation, illustrating the application and importance of the earlier material. This book can help petroleu ... Read more

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A Unique Systems Approach to Energy Engineering, Covering Carbon-Based, Nuclear, and Renewable Sources!

Customer Reviews (7)

Student User
During my time as an undergrad at Cornell University, one of my favorite classes has been a renewable energy course taught by one of the authors, Lou Albright, with Energy Systems Engineering as the primary textbook.Apart from being clear, well-written, and well-organized, the book does a great job of blending background information, justification for technologies, discussion of practical issues, and quantitative analysis of systems in a manageable and engaging way.Working through it was very empowering and it played a big role in getting me excited about energy.It's also very accessible as a reference for specific projects.I would highly recommend it to other students interested in learning how to work with and analyze energy systems.

Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation
We have been using Vanek and Albright's text at Virginia Tech for several semesters for a junior/senior level course entitled 'Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Global Society.'Overall, we find the book to be carefully written, providing good breadth as well as depth on some of the major conventional and sustainable energy systems.The students enrolling in our course come from a variety of engineering disciplines and have a range of backgrounds, but the text seems suited to the mix.The examples are helpful for students, and the excercises at the ends of the chapters provide a range of problems for homework assignments, ranging from conceptual to analytical to numerical.Teaching materials available electronically from the publisher include solution spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides of many (but not all) of the figures and tables in the text, facilitating lecture preparation.There are a number of texts available now in the sustainable energy field, but overall, this text provides a good balance of topics relevant to the course we teach.

Excellent as a university text book
I teach a 2nd year course in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo entitled Engineering and Sustainable Development.One module involves sustainable energy systems.I use this book as the reference for this section of the course.The presentation of stationary energy sources and the workings of fossil fuel plants is at precisely the correct level of explanation for undergraduate students with sufficient references provided to allow grad students (or keen undergraduates) to find out more information.

What I find best about the text is the presentation of the material from a systems analysis perspective.Understanding the goals of design is as, if not more important than how to do the design.

The text really is superb with regard to the modern sustainability concept of "triple bottom line."Each section delivers not only the technology but also a means to financially or economically evaluate the costs and benefits of such a technology.

Overall, this is a brilliant book on energy which has vast applications in university teaching.

An excellent resource, even for non-engineers
This book does an excellent job of bridging the gap between dry engineering texts and touchy-feely guides for novices.

The authors treat each topic area with a crisply written and comprehensive walk through that includes history, current state of development, key concepts and important areas of controversy and ongoing development.

These are followed up with well-designed exercises that teach the reader the formulas and equations required to design and evaluate these systems.

As a layman with a good general knowledge of energy systems and their inherent strengths and challenges, I found this book to a nice step up from the treatments I'm used to.The orderly, analytical approach of the trained engineer is compelling, and having the option of proceeding right into the related math a great way to shift my theoretical understanding toward a real working knowledge.

The topic areas covered in this book are critically important for us all to understand, as our race is forced to start implementing some kind of "Plan B" in the era of Peak Oil and Climate Change.This book helps us move from mystique to measurement--a prerequisite if we are to have a hope of getting it right.

ASAEE Recommended Title
As president of the American Society of Alternative Energy Engineers (ASAEE), I can fully endorse the lasting analytical power of this amazing text. Many texts like this, including some we're reviewing that have not yet been published, and slated for late 2009, cover policy, politics, global statistical inference, and multiple regressions of trend analysis for global supply and demand, but NONE come close to balancing the macro and micro in such fine fashion as ESE. This is a WORKING text, not just for policy, but for implementation. Don't let the ups and downs of barrel prices, or the emotion of global warming vs. cooling make you think this text is dated. The models are solid, sound, state of the art, and relevant in a timeless way-- changing the parameters will not change the underlying value of the models, contribution, and need for this text. This is a must for any engineer's library, whether doing policy work, design, or rubber hits the road project or community engineering. Applying an energy metaphor to the text, it's high wattage for low investment, a perpetuity rather than an annuity, green and permanent with frequent use, as well as a cherished place on your shelves, and renewable with the powerful updates, blogs and helpful additions this very ethical author keeps providing-- the gift keeps on giving. Conserve your funds, time and brain power by getting this today-- it will save you muddling through five other texts costing $200 each which only have a piece of the whole picture you'll find herein. The trees didn't give their lives in vain for this one!--Dr. Tom Halstead ... Read more

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Sets forth the many technical procedures involved in refining. Included are a new chapter on simple and complex refineries, and a revised chapter on gasoline blending, including current information on alcohol blending components. ... Read more

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Why I recommend this book:
I am a non-chemist in a market analyst's position previously occupied by a Chemical Engineer.I never even so much as did "Mickey Mouse" chemistry at school, so my learning curve has been a pretty steep one.Forsomeone to write a book like this is very unusual, as the refining industryis typically the preserve of the technical elite, and this book removes themystique and even manages to deal with a difficult subject with an essenceof humour!Thank you Bill - I'm trying to get hold of the rest of the saga- Petrochemicals in Non-Technical Language!

great reference material
This book is a great reference tool for people in petroleum related fields who do not have technical training. If you are involved in oil and gas operations, sales, retail, etc., this book really helps you understand the terminology and the process. Everyone in my office uses it! ... Read more

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Revised and updated to reflect major changes in the field, this second edition presents an integrated and balanced view of current attitudes and practices used in sound economic decision-making for engineering problems encountered in the oil industry. The volume contains many problem-solving examples demonstrating how economic analyses are applied to different facets of the oil industry.;Discussion progresses from an introduction to the industry, through principles and techniques of engineering economics, to the application of economic methods to the oil industry. It provides information on the types of crude oils, their finished products and resources of natural gas, and also summarizes worldwide oil production and consumption data. ... Read more

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Based on the proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Spring National Meeting in Houston, Texas, March 28-April 1, 1993, this outstanding reference details various facets of residue upgrading and distillate hydrotreating–stressing the importance of selective catalysts in aromatics' reduction.Introduces new aromatics saturation processes for the production of very low-aromatic distillates!Containing authoritative contributions from more than 55 internationally acclaimed experts, Catalytic Hydroprocessing of Petroleum and Distillatesdiscusses catalyst deactivation, advances in middle distillate hydrotreating, and residue hydrocrackingexamines different ways of reducing sulfur and aromatics in diesel fuelsexplains the complex processes required to transform bitumen into marketable distillatesincludes the extension of ebullated bed reactors to low-sulfur distillate processesinvestigates recent progress in residuum upgrading technologyand more! ... Read more

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Handbook contains the latest technologies in the field of petroleum refining processes. Provides a detailed description and review of process chemistry and thermodynamics, product and by-product specifications, wastes, and emissions. Expanded to include 50% new material. Previous ed: c1997. DLC: Petroleum--Refining--Handbooks, manuals, etc. ... Read more

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Another great catalog of state-of-the-art technology
This book was clearly written by a process engineer not a production engineer. A previous handbook, "Petroleum Processing Handbook," by Bland and Davidson is a perfect contrast to this text. Bland and Davidson wrote about processing details only someone familiar with refinery and oilfield practices would know intimately. None of these details are shared in this handbook.

In contrast, Meyer's handbook covers all the new technology from a developer's point of view. The detail is excellent, complete with tables showing who is using this technology worldwide and what product breaks can be expected from its employment. Meyer's book is useless to anyone new to oil refining but may be useful in the library of an old hand.

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Wasted trees
Of the roughly 30 books I've purchased and studied over the past year on related subjects, this is without question the worst.It isessentially a collection of several hundred extremely elementary articles, mostly written at newspaper level.All give the impression that the corporate patent attorneys were standing over the authors' shoulders to make sure they didn't say anything important. It is a black mark on McGraw-Hill's reputation.The main reason I didn't return it was that some of the articles provide useful references to the patent and professional literature.Of course, there are some useful data scattered throughout the haystacks, particularly for the business managers, but the book takes up far too much valuable shelf space. -F. David Doty, PhD.

Review ofPetroleum Processes Handbook
I am interested in this particular technology and, naturally wondered if this was the book I was looking for. This book isa hardcover textbook from McGrawHill and contains clear,concise text with the right balance of general knowledge, technical discussion and charts/diarams. From only a knowledge of basic chemistry to advanced degrees in Sciece and Engineering, this book satisfies all! It is impecable in quality and content and,well worth the cost and, was delivered promptly.

Good, quick process overviews
This handbook provides short (10 pages per process typically) descriptions of widely used chemical processes.The level of detail is appropriate for anyone with a technical backround.

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Handbook of Petroleum Refining PROCESSES. Robert A. Meyers(Editor ... Read more