Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language provides information on important changes in the way petroleum is transformed from raw materials into finished products and a comprehensive discussion on what sets the prices of crude oil and oil products.

Each chapter was carefully written in a nontechnical language to give the reader a basic understanding of the refining industry.

Contents

1. Crude Oil Characteristics
2. Distilling
3. Vacuum Flashing
4. The Chemistry of Petroleum
5. Cat Cracking
6. Refinery Gas Plants
7. Alkylation
8. Catalytic Reforming
9. Residue Reduction
10. Hydrocracking
11. Gasoline
12. Distillate Fuels
13. Asphalt and Residual Fuel
14. Hydrogen, Hydrotreating, and Sulfer Plants
15. Isomerization and Dehydrogenation
16. MTBE and Other Ethers
17. Solvent Recovery of Aromatics
18. Ethylene Plants
19. Simple and Complex Refineries
20. Crude Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Liquids
21. Fuel Values—Heating Values

Index

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