Maples presents an organized look at yield data and properties of products from refinery processes, how to use this information in performing various process economics studies, and discusses operating and capital costs for economic evaluation of both single processes and complete refineries. Yield correlations are presented for all of the important commercially-established petroleum refinery processes, each accompanied by operating requirements and capital cost of a typical unit. Here the user has all of the information required to perform a preliminary economic evaluation. For each process yield correlation a simplified process flow diagram and brief process description is given.

Contents:
Correlation methodology
Crude oils, hydrocarbons, and refinery products
Refinary processing overview
Energy resources and transportation fuels
The environment and the refinery
Crude oil and residual oil processing Solvent deasphalting
Visbreaking and aquaconversion
Delayed coking
Fluid coking/flexicoking
Heavy distillate processing
Fluid catalylic and heavy oil cracking
Hydrocracking
Hydrotreating Light distillate processing
Naphtha desulfurization
Catalytic reforming
Light hydrocarbon processing
Isomerization
Alkylation
Catalytic polymerization and dehydration
Oxygenates
Treating and other auxiliary processes
Aromatics extraction
Hydrogen manufacture
Sour water stripping
Sweetening
Acid gas removal
Sulfur recovery
Tail gas cleanup
Water treatment and waste disposal
Blending
Process economics
Economics.