384 Pages
by
CRC Press
384 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
384 Pages
by
CRC Press
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With mounting pressure to extract petroleum from oil sands and other unconventional sources, oil refineries must adapt their processing methods to handle increasingly heavy crude oils. Unlike traditional crude oils, the properties of heavier crude oils include higher viscosity, metal, salt, and acid content. This causes their interfacial properties to deteriorate, leading to problems such as... Read more
Crude oils. Conventional refining. Nonconventional refining. Asphaltene stability. Daylight stability. Clay treatment. Foam inhibition. Air entrainment. Water contamination. Rust and corrosion. ion-exchange resin treatment. Index.
Biography
Lilianna Z. Pillon
