Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies - Softcover

Speight, James G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124045707 ISBN 13: 9780124045705

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels. However, there is much still to be done to improve techniques for their processing to make recovery and refining of these particular energy sources more cost-effective. Brief but readable, Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies provide readers with a strategy for future production (the up-stream) and upgrading (the down-stream). The book provides the reader with an understandable overview of the chemistry and engineering behind the latest developments and technologies in the industry as well as the various environmental regulations. Clear and rigorous, Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies will prove tool for those scientists and engineers already engaged in fossil fuel science and technology as well as scientists, non-scientists, engineers, and non-engineers who wish to gain a general overview or update of the science and technology of unconventional fossil fuels in general and upgrading technologies in particular. The use of microorganisms and a number of physical methods, such as ultrasound, median microwave, cold plasma, electrokinetic and monocrystalline intermetallics, etc. will be discussed for the first time.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-19 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels However. there is much still to be done to improve techniques for. their processing to make recovery and refining of these particular energy sources more cost-effective. Brief but readable. Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies provide readers with a strategy for future production (the up-stream) and upgrading (the down-stream ). The book provides the reader with an understandable overview of the chemistry and engineering behind the latest developments and technologies in the industry as well as the various environmental regulations. Clear and rigorous. Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil Upgrading Technologies will prove tool for those scientists and engineers already engaged ...

Review:

"Written in plain language, this slim book explains the different processes for refining heavy feedstocks, highlighting recent improvements in thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, catalytic hydrotreating, hydrocracking, and solvent processes."--Research and Reference Book News, August 2013

About this edition

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0124045707
• ISBN 13: 9780124045705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176