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Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Petroleum
Industry gives engineers a critical resource to help them
understand the machine learning that will solve specific
engineering challenges. The reference begins with fundamentals,
covering preprocessing of data, types of intelligent models, and
training and optimization algorithms. The book moves on to
methodically address artificial intelligence technology and
applications by the upstream sector, covering exploration,
drilling, reservoir and production engineering. Final sections
cover current gaps and future challenges.
The Refinery of the Future, Second Edition, delivers useful
knowledge that will help the engineer understand the processes
involved, feedstocks, composition and future technologies. Covering
the basic chemistry, commercial processes already in use and future
innovation, this reference gives engineers and managers the tools
needed to understand refining products, feedstocks, and the
processes critical to convert feedstocks to desired outcomes. New
information concerning tight shale formations and heavy oil process
options is included for today's operations. Rounding out with
future uses in shale, bioliquids and refinery configurations, this
book gives engineers and refinery managers the knowledge to update
and upgrade their refinery assets.
Due to the rise in petroleum prices as well as increasing
environmental concerns, there is a need to develop biochemicals and
bioproducts that offer realistic alternatives to their traditional
counterparts; this book will address the lack of a centralized
resource of information on lubricants and greases from renewable
sources, and will be useful to a wide audience in industry and
academia. It is based on 20 years of research and development at
the UNI-NABL Center, and discusses the various types of vegetable
oils available, comparing their characteristics, properties and
benefits against those of typical petroleum oils as well as
discussing common evaluation tests and giving examples and case
studies of successful applications of biobased lubricants and
greases. Whilst scientific and engineering research data is
included, the book is written in an accessible manner and is
illustrated throughout. * Focuses on an industrial application of
lubrication technology undergoing current explosive growth in the
global market. * Includes a detailed review of the material
benefits of plant-based lubricants that include a better viscosity
index and lubricity even at extreme temperatures, lower
flammability due to higher flash points and lower pour points. *
Covers the basic chemistry of vegetable oils as well as their
profiles for use in lubricants and greases and environmental
benefits. * Includes examples and case studies of where
vegetable-based lubricants have been successfully employed in
industry applications.
Reservoir Simulation: Machine Learning and Modeling helps the
engineer step into the current and most popular advances in
reservoir simulation, learning from current experiments and
speeding up potential collaboration opportunities in research and
technology. This reference explains common terminology, concepts,
and equations through multiple figures and rigorous derivations,
better preparing the engineer for the next step forward in a
modeling project and avoid repeating existing progress.
Well-designed exercises, case studies and numerical examples give
the engineer a faster start on advancing their own cases. Both
computational methods and engineering cases are explained, bridging
the opportunities between computational science and petroleum
engineering. This book delivers a critical reference for today's
petroleum and reservoir engineer to optimize more complex
developments.
Industrial Construction Estimating Manual focuses on industrial
process plants and enables the contractor, subcontractor, and
engineer to use methods, models, procedures, formats, and technical
data for developing industrial process plant construction
estimates. The manual begins with an introduction devoted to labor,
data collection, verification of data, coding, productivity
measurement, the unit quantity model, and computer-aided cost
estimating. It goes on to provide information on construction
materials, database systems, work estimating, computer-aided
estimating, detailed labor estimates, bid assurance, and detailed
applications to construction. Practical examples based on
historical data collected from past installations are also included
as well as a detailed glossary, Excel and mathematical formulas,
metric/standard conversions, area and volume formulas, and boiler
man-hour tables. Industrial Construction Estimating Manual aids
contractors, subcontractors, and engineers with a balance-detailed
estimating method using the unit quantity model and is an excellent
resource for those involved in engineering, technology, and
construction estimating.
Basic theory, applications, and recent trends in analytical
techniques used in crude oil and related products analysis This
book covers the application of different spectroscopic methods to
characterize crude oil and related products. Its topics are
presented in a pedagogical manner so that those new to the subject
can better understand the content. The book begins by familiarizing
the reader with the rheological characterization of crude oil and
related products. Subsequent chapters are directed towards the
current trends of different spectroscopic methods for the
characterization of crude oil. Analytical Characterization Methods
for Crude Oil and Related Products features chapters on: optical
interrogation of petroleum asphaltenes (myths and reality); ESR
characterization of organic free radicals in petroleum products;
high-field, pulsed, and double resonance studies of crude oils and
their derivatives; NMR spectroscopy in bitumen characterization;
applications of Raman spectroscopy in crude oil and bitumen
characterization; and more. * Uses a bottom-up approach starting
from the basic theory of the technique followed by its applications
and recent trends in crude oil analysis * Includes informative
content so as to take a technician to the level of using a
particular analytical method * Covers relevany information so as to
enable a manager in the industry to make purchasing decisions
Analytical Characterization Methods for Crude Oil and Related
Products is aimed at researchers in academia as well as technicians
and developers of new analytical methods in the oil industry and
related areas. It will also be of interest to professionals,
scientists, and graduate students in analytical sciences dealing
with oil and environmental analysis.
This book provides a concise treatise on the use of surfactants in
enhanced oil recovery (EOR), including information on key types of
surfactants and their respective applications in the wider
petroleum industry. The authors discuss carbon dioxide EOR,
alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding strategies, and the use of
surfactants as a means of reducing interfacial tension, while also
paying special attention to the challenges involved in using
surfactants for enhanced oil recovery, such as the difficult issue
of surfactant adsorption on reservoir rock. All chapters highlight
and are based on the authors' own laboratory-scale case studies.
Given its content, the book offers a valuable asset for graduate
students of petroleum and chemical engineering, as well as
researchers in the field of chemical enhanced oil recovery. It will
also be of interest to professionals involved in enhanced
industrial oil recovery.
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Petroleum refining and the petrochemical industry play an important
role in the current world economy. They provide the platform to
convert basic raw materials into many essential products, ranging
from transportation fuels (such as gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, and
gas oil) to basic and intermediate materials for petrochemical
industries and many other valuable chemical products. Advanced
Catalysis Processes in Petrochemicals and Petroleum Refining:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential comprehensive
research publication that provides knowledge on refining processes
that could be integrated by the petrochemical industry and
discusses how to integrate refining products with petrochemical
industries through the use of new technologies. Featuring a range
of topics such as biofuel production, environmental sustainability,
and biorefineries, this book is ideal for engineers, chemists,
industry professionals, policymakers, researchers, academicians,
and petrochemical companies.
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