Api publications necessarily address problems of a general nature. Molecular characterisation and modelling for refining processes. Read the standards, check the referenced methods, and run computations based on these methods. Calculation of volumetricshrinkage resulting from blending light hydrocarbons with crude oil. Api technical data book free ebook download as pdf file. It is designed to be a reference tool for the nonchemist, describing what information analytical methods can provide for risk. American petroleum institute api is an association that promulgates manufacturing.
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Semih eser, professor of energy and geoenvironmental engineering, college of earth and mineral sciences, penn state. Technical data book petroleum refining 89 related items 89 characterization and thermodynamics 89 materials engineering publications 90 petroleum products and petroleum product surveys 92 process safety standards 93 training courses 94 health, environment and safety 94 air 94 water 95. The other links add value to petroleum mainly by moving and storing it e. Technical data book petroleum refining 104 related items 104. These yields can serve as a basis for determining the value of crude oils in a particular refinery or trading situation.
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Chemical engineering series, mcgrawhill book company. The american petroleum institute api is a leader in the development of petroleum and petrochemical equipment and operating standards covering topics that range from drill bits to environmental protection. The figure shows how much oil and product is available in storage. That the api had decided to replace the technical data book petroleum refining, with a database is fundamentally fine with me. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate all or any part of the material published herein should also be addressed to the director. Between 1976 and 1986, the total petroleum throughput of refineries in the. Api distributes more than 300,000 publications each year.
Sep 20, 20 petroleum crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons consisting mainly of alkanes and cycloalkanes with smaller quantities of unsaturated hydrocarbons including alkenes. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Appendix general data for petroleum processing contains general data on. Some of these expectations could be met by proper vehicle design and. Petroleum refining in nontechnical language william l. Pdf petroleum refining technology and economics fifth.
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Api and the technical data book petroleum refining. Api committee on refinery equipment standards department april 2015 2. Technical progress in the petroleum refining and petroleum. More than 185 of those safe operating standards, recommended practices, and technical reports cover the refining and petrochemical industry, it said. It is a light, sweet crude with an api gravity of 39.
The principal refined product was kerosene, used mainly for illumination. For 50 years, the project has been managed by the api technical. Petroleum is one of nine energy and wasteintensive industries that is participating in the u. Api standards and the standards development process. The api represents about 400 corporations in the petroleum industry and helps to set standards for production, refinement, and distribution of petroleum products. Petroleum refining and the prod uction of ulsg and ulsd october 24, 2011 page 2 2.
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Analytical methods and techniques applied to crude oil and. Analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons in environmental mediathis volume discusses and critiques analytical methods for quantifying tph, petroleum mixtures and individual petroleum constituents in soil and water samples. Arnold, editor iv production operations engineering joe dunn clegg, editor v reservoir engineering and petrophysics edward d. The physical properties of crude oils, such as the specific gravity or api. Modeling petroleum processes petroleum refining processes are highly complex and integrated.
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