Petroleum Refining : Technology, Economics, and Markets, 6th Edition

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 of those that want to learn more about the field.

Preface

Part 1 : Markets and Economics
Section 1 : Industry Structure and Characteristics
Chapter 1 : Performance
Chapter 2 : Products
Chapter 3 : Processes
Chapter 4 : Prices
Chapter 5 : Potpourri

Section 2 : Cost Estimation and Complexity
Chapter 6 : Cost Estimation
Chapter 7 : Refinery Complexity
Chapter 8 : Classification
Chapter 9 : Complexity Applications
Chapter 10 : Modern Refineries

Section 3 : Crude Oil and Properties
Chapter 11 : Origin and Composition
Chapter 12 : Crude Quality
Chapter 13 : Distillation Profile
Chapter 14 : Crude Properties
Chapter 15 : Fraction Characterization

Section 4 : Fuel Specifications
Chapter 16 : Standards, Specifications and Fuel Quality
Chapter 17 : Gasoline
Chapter 18 : Jet Fuels
Chapter 19 : Diesel Fuel
Chapter 20 : Product Blending

Part 2 : Technology
Section 5 : Separation Processes
Chapter 21 : Crude Oil Desalting
Chapter 22 : Crude Oil Distillation
Chapter 23 : Solvent Deasphalting

Section 6 : Residue Conversion Processes
Chapter 24 : Visbreaking
Chapter 25 : Coking
Chapter 26 : Residue Hydroconversion
Chapter 27 : Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Chapter 28 : Hydrocracking

Section 7 : Distillate, Naphtha, and Gas Conversion Processes
Chapter 29 : Hydrotreating
Chapter 30 : Butane and Naphtha Hydroisomerization
Chapter 31 : Catalytic Naphtha Reforming
Chapter 32 : Aliphatic Alkylation
Chapter 33 : Olefin Oligomerization
Chapter 34 : Etherification

Section 8 : Lubricants and Supporting Technologies
Chapter 35 : Lubricant Base Oils
Chapter 36 : Supporting Technologies

Appendix A : Definitions
Appendix B : Chapter Discussion
Appendix C : Chapter Problems
Index