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For four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of
readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through
the years has become the standard text in many schools and
universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes,
for self-study, training, and as a reference for industry
professionals. The sixth edition of this perennial bestseller
continues in the tradition set by Jim Gary as the most modern and
authoritative guide in the field. Updated and expanded to reflect
new technologies, methods, and topics, the book includes new
discussion on the business and economics of refining, cost
estimation and complexity, crude origins and properties, fuel
specifications, and updates on technology, process units, and
catalysts. The first half of the book is written for a general
audience to introduce the primary economic and market
characteristics of the industry and to describe the inputs and
outputs of refining. Most of this material is new to this edition
and can be read independently or in parallel with the rest of the
text. In the second half of the book, a technical review of the
main process units of a refinery is provided, beginning with
distillation and covering each of the primary conversion and
treatment processes. Much of this material was reorganized,
updated, and rewritten with greater emphasis on reaction chemistry
and the role of catalysis in applications. Petroleum Refining:
Technology, Economics, and Markets is a book written for users, the
practitioners of refining, and all those who want to learn more
about the field.
Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) has been used on a commercial scale
for more than eighty years. It was initially developed for
strategic reasons because it offered a source of transportation
fuels that was independent from crude oil. Unlike crude,
Fischer-Tropsch synthetic crude is rich in olefins and oxygenates,
while being sulphur and nitrogen free. Consequently, the catalysis
involved in refining it is significantly different and only a few
catalysts have been developed for the purpose. Until now, an
account of this topic has been missing from the literature, despite
mounting interest in the technology. This is the first book to
provide a review and analysis of the literature (journal and
patent) on the catalysis needed to refine syncrude to
transportation fuels. It specifically highlights the impact of
oxygenates and how oxygenates affect selectivity and deactivation.
This aspect is also related to the refining of biomass derived
liquids. Topics covered include: dimerisation / oligomerisation,
isomerisation / hydroisomerisation, catalytic cracking /
hydrocracking and hydrogenation, catalytic reforming, aromatic
alkylation, etherification, dehydration, and some oxygenate and wax
specific conversions.
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