This book covers petroleum refining and gas purification processes, including refinery configurations comprising of relevant units with special emphasis on processing of heavy crudes with high acid number. It includes a short review of distillation principles, distillation column auxiliaries, critical column pressure control strategies, critical issues of crude and vacuum distillation units particularly for heavy crude processing. Different corrosion mechanisms and their prevention with regards to heavy high TAN crude processing are also included. Fundamentals are explained with support of steady-state simulation and presented with simulation flowsheets and outputs, supported by examples of calculations and troubleshooting case studies.

Features:

  • Deals with principles and practices in the hydrocarbon industry and petroleum refinery with emphasis on heavy crude processing
  • Focuses on operation and practices of the major process units with simulation examples and aimed at the professional engineer
  • Covers acid gas treatment in view of increased emphasis on carbon capture and storage, and introduction of residue gasification processes
  • Elucidates methodologies for safety relief load computation for distillation columns
  • Explains real-life problems in reboilers, column internals, column pressure controls and corrosion in crude, and vacuum distillation and secondary units with several case studies

This book is aimed at professionals in petroleum engineering and graduate students in chemical engineering.

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This book covers petroleum refining and gas purification processes focussing on major secondary units. It explains 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.
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1. Overview of refining and distillation 2. Fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) 3. Delayed Coking unit (DCU) 4. Hydrotreaters and Hydrocrackers 5. Acid gas treatment 6. Hydrogen generation units 7. Sulfur recovery unit 8. Plant safety 9. Technical challenges in refining 10. Renewable energy
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781032214054
Publisert
2025-03-12
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
580 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
356

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Ashis Nag is a professional Chemical Engineer with 40 + years of rich experience in various fields of Petroleum refining and related downstream process technologies. He has worked in different refineries of Indian oil corporation and in Essar oil refinery, Jamnagar. He served as Head of special central process engineering and design cell of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) as Executive Director. Presently, he is working as a process consultant. Internationally traveled and author of several papers for international journals and forums, he has also authored a book titled Distillation and Hydrocarbon Processing Practices. He has received a couple of awards for innovative designs, and obtained a B.CH.E degree in chemical engineering from Jadavpur university, Kolkata, India, in 1976.