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Abstract ..................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................... 5 1.2 The Aim and Objective of This Study ............................................. 5 1.3 The Need and Rationale Behind This Study .................................... 6 1.4 Energy and Environmental Sustainability and the Vision
for the Future ................................................................................... 7 1.5 The Vision and Status of Petroleum Engineering Science Today .... 7 1.6 Petrochemicals and Petroleum Refining Today ............................... 8 1.7 Crude Petroleum Oil ........................................................................ 8 1.8 Recent Advances in Energy and Environmental Sustainability ..... 12 1.9 Recent Research Pursuits in the Field of Petroleum Refining ....... 18
1.10 Recent Technological Vision in the Field of Petrochemicals ........ 19 1.11 Sustainable Development and Petroleum Refining in
Today’s World ................................................................................ 21 1.12 Opportunities, Challenges, and the Scientific Success
Behind Petroleum Refining ........................................................... 22 1.13 Future Research Trends and Future Frontiers ................................ 23 1.14 Conclusion, Summary, and Future Perspectives ............................ 23 1.15 Acknowledgment ........................................................................... 24 Keywords ................................................................................................ 24 References ............................................................................................... 24
ABSTRACT
Human civilization is witnessing drastic challenges today as regards to energy and environment. Nowadays, energy and environmental sustainability stand in the midst of scientific vision and deep scientific discernment. Petroleum engineering is ushering in a new era in the field of scientific regeneration and deep scientific rejuvenation. Science and engineering of petroleum refining is in a state of deepening crisis as depletion of fossil fuel resources stands as a truly vexing issue in the scientific horizon. In this chapter, the author pointedly focuses on the immense scientific potential, scientific success and wide horizon in research pursuit in the field of petroleum refining. Petroleum refining is an intensely complex research endeavor. The world of technology and engineering science stands baffled as energy sustainability is in a state of distress with the ever-growing concern of depletion of petroleum resources. The chapter also deeply reviews the area of petrochemicals and energy sustainability with the sole vision of furtherance of science and engineering. Water science is another facet of environmental sustainability today. This treatise with deep and cogent insight relates the scientific success and the scientific profundity in the field of water technology, drinking water treatment, and desalination science. The scientific intricacies, the vast challenges, and the vision for the future are well researched and presented in deep details in this chapter.
