Boiling Oil: The Business of Petroleum Refining
A.N. Williams, "Boiling Oil: The Business of Petroleum Refining"
English | 2019 | ASIN: B07NKFPTQ9 | EPUB | pages: 64 | 0.8 mb
English | 2019 | ASIN: B07NKFPTQ9 | EPUB | pages: 64 | 0.8 mb
When you first enter the refining business it can be overwhelming trying to understand the basics. The refinery seems like a complicated maze of vessels and columns. How do the individual process units work together? Which hydrocarbon streams go where and why? The goal of this book is to demystify the refinery by explaining:
1) The purpose and operation of the major refining technologies: fluidized catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, delayed coking, catalytic reforming, alkylation, hydrotreating, and of course the crude and vacuum units
2) How different hydrocarbon streams flow through the refinery
3) Refinery margin-how it’s calculated and optimization
4) How the refinery generates a profit
This book is written for those new to the industry or experienced professionals in one area looking for a good overview of refining. Whether you're a young rotating equipment engineer or yield accountant, this book is written in plain enough language for anyone to understand.