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This book provides an all-inclusive guide to surface petroleum operations. It solves various problems encountered in the field processing of oil and gas. The book delivers an expanded and updated treatment that covers the principles and procedures related to the processing of reservoir fluids for the separation, handling, treatment, and production of quality petroleum oil and gas products. With five new chapters, this second edition covers additional subjects, in particular natural gas, economics and profitability, oil field chemicals, and piping and pumps. The book also contains worked out examples and case studies from a variety of oil field operations.

This text focuses on the structure of the current educational system and describes the transformations needed to ensure the adequate education of future science and engineering students. It describes how university faculty can make the necessary changes to teach a broader range of skills, technical proficiency, teamwork, adaptability, and versatility within the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. Also covered are approaches to provide a broader exposure to experiences desired by both academic and non-university employers to prepare students for an increasingly interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global job market.

Used lubricating oil is a valuable resource. However, it must be re-refined mainly due to the accumulation of physical and chemical contaminants in the oil during service. Refining Used Lubricating Oils describes the properties of used lubricating oils and presents ways these materials can be re-refined and converted into useful lubricants as well as other products. It provides an up-to-date review of most of the processes for used lubricating oil refining that have been proposed or implemented in different parts of the world, and addresses feasibility and criteria for selecting a particular process.The book begins with an overview of lubricating oil manufacturing, both petroleum-based and synthetic-based. It reviews the types and properties of lubricating oils and discusses the characteristics and potential of used lubricating oils. The authors describe the basic steps of used oil treatment including dehydration, distillation or solvent extraction, and finishing. They explore the combustion of used oil for use as fuel, covering chemistry and equipment, fuel oil properties, and combustion emissions.The book considers alternative processing options such as refinery processing and re-refining. It also reviews the major refining processes that have been suggested over the years for used oil. These include acid/clay, simple distillation, combinations of distillation and hydrogenation, solvent extraction, filtration, and coking processes. The book addresses economic, life cycle assessment, and other criteria for evaluating the attractiveness of an oil recycling project, examining various costs and presenting an economic evaluation method using an Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the publisherΓÇÖs website. The book concludes with a chapter offering insights on how to choose the most suitable process technology.

This book provides an up-to-date treatment of all the important aspects of modeling of reactors employed in the main processes for heavy petroleum upgrading. It explains approaches to modeling catalytic reactors and discusses such aspects as thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, process variables, process schemes, and reactor design. To validate the models developed, the author uses experimental data obtained directly from the laboratory. This essential reference focuses on more practical issues regarding reactor modeling for upgrading of heavy petroleum and emphasizes detailed descriptions of catalytic reactor modeling.

Covers various aspects of interfacial problems, discussing the properties of crude oils and petroleum products at the oil/metal, oil/water, and oil/gas interfaces that lead to rust, corrosion, stable emulsions, and foaming. This book covers the effects of surface active molecules, trace contaminants, and processing.

Offers a guidance to the preparation, production and operation of various commercially used catalysts. This title takes into account general safety considerations and regulations from the Occupational Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. It contains material on the regeneration, reactivity and recovery of used catalysts.

Based on the proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Spring National Meeting in Houston, Texas, March 28 to April 1, 1993, this work details various facets of residue upgrading and distillate hydrotreating, stressing the importance of selective catalysts in aromatics reduction.

Offers insights into the composition of petroleum, especially its heavy ends, and presents a review of modern methods for the analysis of heavy petroleum fractions, which are viewed as refinery feedstocks. This book introduces the concept of an atmospheric equivalent boiling point (AEBP) scale.

Offers an understanding of the various flows that occur during the processing of polymer melts. This book focuses on flow instabilities that affect the rate of production and the methods used to prevent and eliminate flow instabilities in order to increase production rates and enhance manufacturing efficiency.

Details the chemistry of naphtha reforming, the preparation and characterization of catalysts, and the commercial technologies and industrial applications. This book addresses the development of catalysts and revamp process improvements propelled by regulations on sulfur, benzene, and oxygenate content in gasoline and refinery pressure.

Offers coverage of safe handling practices, health effects, physical properties, and chemical synthesis routes to some of the most important organic solvents used in the chemical and allied process industries. This reference features a glossary of solvent terminology and an easy-to-reference index of synonyms for chemicals and solvents.

Presenting strategies in control policies, this text uses a systems theory approach to predict, simulate and streamline plant operation, conserve fuel and resources, and increase workplace safety in the manufacturing, chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, biochemical and energy industries.

The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition covers the relationship of coal industry processes with environmental regulations, as well as the effects of combustion products on the atmosphere. It introduces the science of coal, beginning with its formation in the ground, leading to the production of a wide variety of products and petrochemical intermediates in the twenty-first century. The book is designed for scientists, engineers, and students engaged in the coal and/or catalyst manufacturing industry looking for a general overview or update on the science of coal.

Highlighting the chemical as well as engineering aspects of processes involved in lubricant base stock production, this book examines modern hydroprocessing technologies - including hydrocracking, hydrofinishing, and catalytic dewaxing - employed in refineries worldwide.

Focusing on continuous, multivariate processes, this book introduces statistical methods and modeling techniques for process monitoring, process and controller performance evaluation, and fault diagnosis. It covers empirical modeling development techniques, modeling process signals for trend analysis, and sensor failure detection and diagnosis.

Offers data - from physical and chemical properties to storage and exposure guidelines - on over 185 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), more than 125 priority water pollutants (PWPs), and some 450 chemicals listed by the Occupational, Safety, and Health Administration (OSHA).

Practical and accessible, the Practical Handbook on Biodiesel Production and Properties identifies potential biodiesel sources and explores their viability from a technical, commercial, and economic point of view. It provides a comprehensive and precise review of biodiesel yielding plants, including their biodiesel potential and implementation, morphology, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, biotic factors, energy, and more.

Completely revised and updated, this Second Edition of the critically acclaimed referenceprovides the very latest theoretical and practical data on filtration of gases and liquids

Illustrating techniques in model development, signal processing, data reconciliation, process monitoring, quality assurance, intelligent real-time process supervision, and fault detection and diagnosis, this work offers simulation and control strategies for batch fermentation applications in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.

Outlines the fundamental concepts and strategies for economic assessments for informed management decisions in industry. This book illustrates how to prepare capital cost and operating expense estimates, profitability analyses, and feasibility studies, and execute sensitivity and uncertainty assessments.

Fundamentals of Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering provides a holistic understanding of petroleum and petrochemical products manufacturing, presented in a step-by-step sequence of the entire supply chain. The book covers the essential preliminaries for the exploration and production of crude petroleum oil and gas, an analysis of crude oil and its petroleum products, the processing of petroleum in refineries, the fundamentals of lubricating oil and grease, petrochemicals, theories and problems of unit operations and the processes involved in refineries and petrochemical plants, and commercial and managerial activities necessary for the ultimate success of a refining or manufacturing business

Offers information on the technological aspects of refining heavy oils, residua, bitumen, and other high-sulfur feedstocks. This book focuses on the range of next-generation refining processes.

Combines a description of the origin and use of fundamental chemical kinetics through an assessment of realistic reactor problems with a discussion of kinetics and its relation to chemical thermodynamics. This title provides exercises, open-ended situations drawing on creative thinking, and worked-out examples.

During the upgrading of heavy petroleum, asphaltene is the most problematic impurity since it is the main cause of catalyst deactivation and sediments formation. Exploring many aspects related to asphaltenes composition and conversion, this book highlights the changes that these heavy and complex molecules undergo during catalytic hydroprocessing.

Spectroscopic techniques are essential to the understanding of catalyst performance and feedstock properties. This volume examines the use of adsorption microcalorimetry to measure acidity, acid site density, and strength of the acid sites in heterogenous catalysts. It discusses the use of H-NMR to characterize the properties of FCCU feedstock.