ABSTRACT
Crude Oil Chemistry is foremost a scientifically exact guide to the full family of classical and modern analytical and process technologies in petroleum refining. In widening its vision also to incorporate a geological history of petroleum formation, present-day geopolitical and economic issues, and approaches to redress and improve the delicate ties between the petroleum industry and the environment, this reference succeeds as a total representation of the factors going into the chemistry of crude oil and their outward bound ramifications. The book thoroughly evaluates the chemistry and processing of low API gravity high-sulfur heavy crude oil increasingly relied on in the industry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I CLASSIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CRUDE OIL
part |2 pages
Part II REGIONAL PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
part |2 pages
Part III MAIN PROCESSES IN THE PETROLEUM REFINING INDUSTRY
part |2 pages
Part IV Heavy Oil Processing—Chemistry of Asphaltenes