Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes, 3rd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------Master the latest technologies powering the petroleum industry! Ifstaying on top of the latest developments in the petroleum refiningprocess industry is part of your work, here's the one-stop resourceyou need. Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes delivers comprehensivecoverage of how major players like UOP, KBR, STRATCO, Belco, Stone& Webster, Foster Wheeler, Chevron Lummus Global, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco,and Shell, are taking these processes to new heights through technology.Thoroughly revised and expanded this new edition of the Handbook ofPetroleum Processes features new chapters that focus on the technological,pollution-control, and economic aspects of 61 petroleum refining processesas created by a host of industry powerhouses.The technologies coveredinclude: alkylation and polymerization, base aromatics production processes,catalytic cracking, catalytic reforming, dehydrogenation, hydrogenproduction, hydrocracking, hydrotreating, isomerization, separationprocesses, sulfur compound extraction and sweetening, visbreaking andcoking, oxygenates production technologies, and hydrogen processing.Gas to liquids technologies, and estimates of capital and operatingcosts are provided, along with information on the design of additionsto existing refineries and the construction of new ones.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Robett A. Meyers was manager of Chemical ProcessTechnology at TRW and is now President of RAMTECH Limited. A residentof Redondo Beach, CA, Dr. Meyers is the inventor or co-inventor ofa number of broadly used engineering processes, and has managed projectsin nearly every facet of the petroleum refining industry. He is asenior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a memberof the American Chemical Society, and serves on the UCLA ChemistryDepartment Advisory Board. His complete biography appears in Who'sWho in the World.