Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics

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Continuing the high standards set by earlier editions, Petroleum Refining, Fourth Edition summarizes recent developments in oil refining processes, addressing topics ranging from basic applications to the implementation of viable operations that meet environmental and economic requirements. The authors maintain the clear, systematic style that made previous editions so popular. This edition reviews petroleum-refining technology and refining processes, incorporates recent statistics on utility data, investment, and operating costs, and considers environmental factors, the place of reformulated fuels in product distribution, and uses for heavier crude oils and those with higher sulfur and metal.

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Excellent overview.......2007-07-06

I am an investment analyst and used this book to get up to speed on an unfamiliar industry. I found it to be clear, well organized, and containing all the info I needed to understand the dynamics driving the business and the lingo. There was more engineering and scientific info than I needed for my purposes, but it was useful to thumb through those chapters to get a high level understanding of the issues. Highly recommended for people new to the industry.

do you want to major in this field?.......2005-02-15

This subject enables much of modern civilisation. From producing fuel for transport, of course. But the entire plastics industry also depends on these refineries. So Gary explains to a reader who hopefully has had some exposure to chemistry, how this comes about.

The level of discussion is both at the molecular level of chemistry, but also at the engineering level of what this means in order to have an economically viable refinery. An undergraduate who is casting around, uncertain if she wants to major in chemical engineering, might be encouraged to read this book. It gives her a detailed perspective on the issues of the field.

Technical Progress and Profits: Process Improvements in Petroleum Refining

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Technical Progress and Profits: Process Improvements in Petroleum Refining
John L. Enos
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ASIN: 0197300235

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Throughout the twentieth century the technology employed by the petroleum refining industry has been advancing rapidly, yet it has generally escaped study.

Whatever the explanation for its scholarly neglect, the advances that have been secured over the century have enabled the producers of petroleum products to meet the ever-increasing demands for their products throughout the world. No other manufactured goods are so universally and so cheaply
available.

This book concentrates on the technical changes that have been secured in the second half of this century, using as its basis the main petroleum refining process, Fluid Catalytic Cracking. Both technological and economic aspects are examined over the sixty years of the process's history; and, in a
novel attempt, related the one to the other: an accomplishment that reveals more about the technology and the economics rather than either engineering or economic analysis would separately. Technology and economics are connected in the real world: in this study they are connected in their
exposition.

As in conventional economic history, technological improvements are summarized and their sources and consequences determined. In addition, the long-term pattern of costs and profits is displayed; and regular measurements are taken throughout, so that experience can be seen as the continuous
unfolding of industrial progress.

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Petroleum Refinery Process Economics
Robert E. Maples
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What a disappointment.......2006-06-25

When I read the abstract for this book I thougth I would pick up some information or process description that would help pick out the most economical scheme to process a given feedstock. Instead what I got was mostly a rehash of what I can get from Hydrocarbon processing without any hard numbers or equations to use. The author spends most of the time describing databases of process inoformation he has collected and how he went about correlating the results, but without ever bothering to print the correlations that were developed. Instead you get tables comparing the authors correlations to other correlations which also are not published. This does nothing to help you know how to predict the performance of a unit.

Petroleum Refining : Technology and Economics, 2nd Edition

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Petroleum Refining : Technology and Economics, 2nd Edition
James H.; Handwerk, Glenn E. Gary
Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker Incorporated
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ASIN: B000KW89QA

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Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics

Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker
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ASIN: B000F3O9RC

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Revised & expanded edition.

Regulating Competition in Oil: Government Intervention in the U. S. Refining Industry, 1948-1975 (Economics Ser. 1)

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Regulating Competition in Oil: Government Intervention in the U. S. Refining Industry, 1948-1975 (Economics Ser. 1)
E. Anthony Copp
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Energy get-together aims to promote economic growth.(Power Supply)(Africa Energy Forum): An article from: African Review of Business and Technology

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Energy get-together aims to promote economic growth.(Power Supply)(Africa Energy Forum): An article from: African Review of Business and Technology

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This digital document is an article from African Review of Business and Technology, published by Alain Charles Publishing Ltd. on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 487 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Energy get-together aims to promote economic growth.(Power Supply)(Africa Energy Forum)
Publication: African Review of Business and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd.
Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Page: 38(1)

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Future oil supplies.(FORUM): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology

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Future oil supplies.(FORUM): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Robert Fri , Colin J. Campbell , Anne Korin , Chris Skrebowski , and Arlie M. Skov
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Release Date: 2006-03-15

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Future oil supplies.(FORUM)
Author: Robert Fri
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
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Volume: 21 Issue: 4 Page: 5(4)

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Growth prospects brighten.(Nigeria) : An article from: African Review of Business and Technology

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Growth prospects brighten.(Nigeria) : An article from: African Review of Business and Technology
Moin Siddiqi
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This digital document is an article from African Review of Business and Technology, published by Alain Charles Publishing Ltd. on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3626 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Growth prospects brighten.(Nigeria)
Author: Moin Siddiqi
Publication: African Review of Business and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
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Volume: 40 Issue: 11 Page: 21(3)

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Interest and oil edge dollar up.(Illustration): An article from: African Review of Business and Technology

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Interest and oil edge dollar up.(Illustration): An article from: African Review of Business and Technology

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This digital document is an article from African Review of Business and Technology, published by Alain Charles Publishing Ltd. on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 604 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Interest and oil edge dollar up.(Illustration)
Publication: African Review of Business and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
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This volume documents military advances in personnel measurement technology and practices. The military is the unquestionable forerunner of this technology. Until now some of this knowledge has not been easily accessible to the scientific community at large. This book highlights advances in enlisted personnel screening and selection from World War I to the present. It foresees the future era of testing, through the use of Item Response Theory, computerized adaptive testing, and the development of new computerized tests. The contributors study the use of computer systems to address "person-job match" and "vocational guidance." They also describe selection to various officer candidate programs and examine the criteria of enlisted performance during peacetime. Military Personnel Measurement covers the full scope of military personnel technology and includes discussions of current topics including: computerized vocational guidance systems; advances in vocational testing; personnel classification; evaluations of enlisted performance. Students and professionals in the areas of personnel management, business administration, military studies, or anyone interested in the use of new technology in the testing and evaluation of personnel, will find Military Personnel Measurement a valuable resource.

Test Policy in Defense: Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

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Test Policy in Defense: Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

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Military Personnel Measurement: Testing, Assignment, Evaluation

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Military Personnel Measurement: Testing, Assignment, Evaluation
Martin F. Wiskoff
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Occupational competency testing of military personnel in the San Antonio area: A summary and review of the project

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Occupational competency testing of military personnel in the San Antonio area: A summary and review of the project
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Physical measurements (Army medical bulletin)
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Use of bioelectrical impedance analysis measurements as predictors of physical performance (Report)

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Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

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Making Salmon Makes Us Human.......2003-01-03

There's your text books on salmon, and there's required reading.
Of the 300-odd salmon titles, Making Salmon is one of those you
must read. Like First Fish, First People, Making Salmon is about
the human side of the fishery, its evolution and confabulation
as a fought-over resource. Absolutely fascinating history, you
realize right away that nobody has an absolute moral high ground
in the salmon debate. Everything is allied against its survival,
and yet magically, miraculously, the salmon continue to return.
Like Mountain in the Clouds, put Making Salmon on your booklist.

Understates negative impact of logging.......2001-11-06

Mr. Taylor accurately identifies most of the causes of the salmon population crisis facing Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. And he is dead on in his assessment of the impact of farm fisheries on salmon ecology.
The book grossly understates, however, the impact of logging on salmon habitat. Without canopy to cool streams, temperature-sensitive salmon simply cannot spawn successfully. And let's not overlook the role that clear-cutting plays in causing erosion, sedimentation, and flooding. It's true that salmon ecology can still suffer from genetic contamination by farm fish, point-source and non-point-source pollution, illegal overfishing on the high seas, legal overfishing in fresh water, damming, and overuse of water by irrigators and developers. But let's not downplay the egregious impact of logging.

Swimming Against the Current.......2000-05-11

Making Salmon is the definitive work on the problems facing the salmon fishery of the Pacific Northwest. For as long as man has lived he has exploited the salmon. Joseph Taylor takes the reader on a journey through time as he leads us step by step through the decline of these once great fish. There is plenty of culpability to go around. Foresters, developers, commercial fisherman, native Americans, even sport fishermen all come in for their share of blame. Although focusing on Oregon, Taylor's work is easily transferable anywhere salmon swim, from Alaska to California.

Extremely well documented (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) Making Salmon is occasionally dry but never dull. What is most dramatic about this story is the resiliency of the salmon. Time and time again they manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them!

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of dams, hatcheries, consumption or conservation, you will find merit in this work. Making Salmon is a must read for anyone interested in the rivers and fisheries of the Northwest.

Swimming Against the Current.......2000-03-30

As long as man has lived in the Pacific Northwest he has exploited the salmon. In this thorough history of the travails of the pacific salmon, Joseph Taylor does not hesitate to mince words or point the finger of blame, and there is plenty of blame to go around. Native Americans, commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers, sport fishermen, politicians, the states, the feds, the hatcheries, and others, all share the responsibility for the decline of these great fish.

Although focusing on Oregon, MAKING SALMON is easily transferable anywhere Pacific salmon exist, from California to Alaska. Extremely well documented, (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) MAKING SALMON takes the reader step by step through the last two centuries of development in the Northwest and what that has meant to the salmon fishery there. Taylor paints an excellent history of failure and simplistic answers to a complex problem. What comes through, as most intriguing, is the resiliency of the salmon. They somehow manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them. Resiliency should not be confused with immortality however.

Not always an easy read, MAKING SALMON nonetheless remains essential to anyone wishing to better understand the plight of the Pacific salmon or who is interested in the fine detail of what happens when man and nature collide.

The definitive history of the Northwest salmon crisis.......2000-02-06

Joseph Taylor's award-winning history of the Northwest salmon crisis is the best book to date on this important topic. No other study is as well researched or beautifully written as MAKING SALMON. Taylor, who teaches environmental and Western United States history at Iowa State University, traces the historical decline of salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest, focusing primarily on Oregon. His argument--that while many have claimed to speak for salmon, most have actually articulated their own needs instead--takes the current debate beyond the politics of blame. Understanding the complex social and environmental history of the "salmon crisis," he argues, is essential to thinking more clearly about the future of our region's fisheries. Most impressive is his critique of the role hatcheries have played in diminishing Northwest salmon runs. Science and technology, he concludes, have not always saved nature from human abuses. Abundant illustrations, detailed maps, and a rich bibliography round out the book. There are many titles that explore the decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. None address the issue as artfully and intelligently as MAKING SALMON. It is required reading for anyone who cares about the future of Northwest salmon or the people who depend upon them.

Salmon: an Environmental Tragedy in Two Acts.(Review): An article from: American Scientist

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This book leads directly to the most modern numerical techniques for compressible fluid flow, with special consideration given to astrophysical applications. Emphasis is put on high-resolution shock-capturing finite-volume schemes based on Riemann solvers. The applications of such schemes, in particular the PPM method, are given and include large-scale simulations of supernova explosions by core collapse and thermonuclear burning and astrophysical jets. Parts two and three treat radiation hydrodynamics. The power of adaptive (moving) grids is demonstrated with a number of stellar-physical simulations showing very crispy shock-front structures.

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