Petroleum Refining Processes

This work highlights contemporary approaches to resource utilization and provides comprehensive coverage of technological advances in residuum conversion. It illustrates state-of-the-art engineering methods for the refinement of heavy oils, bitumen, and other high-sulphur feedstocks. The book includes comprehensive terminology and covers pretreatments, thermochemical equilibrium, data analysis, reactor design, transport phenomena, catalysis, and next-generation hydrogen production.