ABSTRACT
Modern refinery operations are very complex and, to a person unfamiliar with the industry, it seems to be an impossible task to reduce the complexity to a coordinated group of understandable processes. It is the purpose of this book to present the refinery processes, as far as possible, in the same order in which the crude flows through the refinery in order to show the purposes and interrelationships of the processing units. The case-study method is best for quick understanding and we recommend that a crude oil be selected and yield and cost calculations be made as the refining processes are studied in order. An example problem is given in Chapter 17 for a refinery of low complexity and the example problem starting in Chapter 4 and ending in Chapter 18 presents a complex refinery typical of today’s operations.
