Hydrocarbon Processing and Refining: Principles and Practices

This book covers petroleum refining and gas purification processes focussing on major secondary units. It initiates with a short review of distillation auxiliaries followed by coverage of critical column pressure control strategies, critical issues of crude and vacuum distillation units, different corrosion mechanisms, and its prevention, supported by real-life case study examples. Fundamentals are explained with support of steady state simulation and presented with simulation flowsheets and outputs. It also contains live examples of calculations and troubleshooting case studies.

Features:

Deals with principles and practices in hydrocarbon industry in general and petroleum refinery.

Focuses on elucidating the principals involved in operation and practices of the major process units aimed at professional engineer.

Covers acid gas treatment in view of increased emphasis on carbon capture and storage.

Elucidates methodologies for safety relief load computation for distillation columns.

Explains real life problems in boiler, corrosion in crude and vacuum distillation units along with case studies.

This book is aimed at Professionals in Petroleum Engineering and Graduate students in Chemical Engineering.