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0824702174 978-0824702175 January 21, 1999 3
The Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum, Third Edition fully covers the subject, from the underground formation of petroleum to recovery of refined products. The third edition contains additional chapters on the structure of petroleum, refining heavy feedstocks, instability and incompatibility in petroleum products, environmental aspects of refining and much more.

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"...a comprehensive textbook....extensively illustrated with chemical equations, chemical structures, process flow sheets and tables." -- The Chemical Engineer

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 934 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 3 edition (January 21, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0824702174
  • ISBN-13: 978-0824702175
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,515,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Petroleum is perhaps the most important substance consumed in modern society. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acid gas impurities, asphaltene species, coke induction period, demetallized oil, oxidized asphaltenes, asphaltene constituents, polynuclear aromatic systems, crude scale wax, deasphaltened oil, structural group analysis, asphaltenic material, polynuclear aromatic ring systems, petroleum asphaltenes, heteroatom constituents, kerogen structure, asphaltene cores, cracked residua, asphaltene fraction, paraffin distillate, asphaltene separation, fractional distillation tower, naphthenic ring systems, term heavy oil, nonhydrocarbon constituents, asphaltene yield
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Marcel Dekker Inc, United States, Hydrocarbon Processing, Sons Inc, Lower Cretaceous, American Chemical Society, Upper Devonian, Petroleum Processing Handbook, The Netherlands, Editions Technip, Oil Gas, Fuel Chem, Academic Press, Beaverhill Lake, Francis Publishers, Cold Lake, Organic Geochemistry, Medicine River, Applied Science Publishers, Bureau of Mines, Modern Petroleum Technology, International Conference, Plenum Press, Business Press
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