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Refining Processes Handbook

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Great buy, includes large database of process data & refinery flowsheets in simple language...must buy for all petrochemical 'n process engineeres

The author does a good job in this book of explaining all that individuals in the petrochemical industry would like to know. This book is an excellent guidebook with well regarded diagrams and charts and a clear logical flow in material.

The vast amount of experience of the author in the industry glares at the reader. Highly recommended.

Intelligent buy, all details for petrochemical and process engineers in simple language. Well descriptive flow chats and tech.

As a practicing chemical engineer with years of experience, albeit, outside of the refining segment of the CPI, I found this book useless. I was hoping for a detailed explanation of processes that might help me learn my way into this side of the business. The PDFs are useful and interesting. I learned a little from that. What I really wanted was a gritty process engineer's view of refining. Instead, I found an overview. If you want to gain an understanding of oil refining, don't go here. Instead, learn what you can from material on-line, such as Hydrocarbon Processing, Chemical Engineering, or other trade magazines, including my own, Chemical Processing.

The title of this book should be "An Overview of Oil Refining Practices."

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I am a process control engineer. In general, it's a good resource book for me to get some concept about the refinery process.

(1)Distillation: Flow rates only decrease as one goes up the columb not down as this text states. Distillation is driven by the reboiler not the condenser. (2) Chemical reaction equations don't balance