Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Refinery Distillation -- Process Variables -- Process Design of a Crude Distillation Tower -- Characterization of Unit Fractionation -- General Properties of Petroleum Fractions -- Atmospheric Distillation Unit -- Vacuum Distillation Unit -- Crude Desalting -- Chapter 2. Distillate Hydrotreating -- Naphtha Hydrodesulfurization Process -- Kerosene Hydrotreating -- Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization -- Atmospheric Residuum Desulfurization -- Chapter 3. Hydrocracking Processes -- Hydrocracking Reactions -- Process Configuration -- Process Flow Scheme -- Operating Conditions -- Catalyst Sulfiding and Unit Startup -- Shutdown Procedure -- Catalyst Regeneration -- Mild Hydrocracking -- Residuum Hydrocracking -- Chapter 4. Gasoline Manufacturing Processes -- Catalytic Reforming -- Fluid Catalytic Cracking -- Alkylation -- Isomerization of C5/C6 Normal Paraffins -- Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether -- Chapter 5. Hydrogen Production and Recovery -- Natural Gas Desulfurization -- Steam Reforming -- Carbon Monoxide Conversion -- Carbon Dioxide Removal -- Methanation -- Pressure Swing Adsorption Route -- Partial Oxidation Process -- Hydrogen Recovery -- Chapter 6. Residuum Processing -- Delayed Coking -- Visbreaking -- Solvent Deasphalting -- Bitumen Blowing -- Chapter 7. Treating Processes -- General Principles -- FCCU Light Gasoline -- Jet Fuel (ATK) Sweetening -- Chapter 8. Sulfur Recovery and Pollution Control Processes -- Sulfur Recovery from Acid Gas -- Claus Tail Gas Treatment -- Flue Gas Desulfurization -- Amine Treatment -- Chapter 9. Refinery Water Systems -- Cooling Water System -- Sea Water Cooling System -- Cooling Towers -- Boiler Feedwater System -- Utility Water System -- Treatment of Oily Water -- Wet Slop Oil System -- Treatment of Sanitary Sewage -- Sour Water Treatment.

Chapter 10. Refinery Off-Site Facilities and Utility Systems -- Refinery Tankage -- Shipping Terminals and Sea Lines -- Refinery Tankage Estimation -- Product Blending System -- Refinery Flare System -- Refinery Steam System -- Refinery Fuel System -- Chapter 11. Product Blending -- Gasoline Octane Blending -- ASTM Distillation Blending -- Viscosity Blending -- Pour Point Blending -- Flash Point Blending -- Reid Vapor Pressure Blending for Gasolines and Naphthas -- Aniline Point Blending -- Crude Oil Assays -- Chapter 12. Refinery Stock Balancing -- Data for Model Building -- Calculation Procedure -- Refinery Material Balance Spreadsheet Program -- Chapter 13. Refinery Linear Programming Modeling -- Development of the Refinery LP Model -- The Structure of a Refinery LP Model -- Property Propagation to Other Tables -- Blending Specifications -- Stream Pooling (Recursion Process) -- Distributive Recursion -- Objective Function -- Optimization Step -- Solution Convergence -- Interpreting the Solution -- Report Writer Programs -- Delta-Based Modeling -- Atmospheric Crude Distillation and VDU Modeling -- Single-Product LP Blender -- Chapter 14. Pricing Petroleum Products -- Netback and Formula Pricing for Crude Oil -- Pricing Petroleum Products and Intermediate Stocks -- Assigned Crude Yields -- Chapter 15. Definitive Operating Plan -- DOPs in Joint-Ownership Refineries -- Fixed- and Balancing-Grade Products -- Product Equivalencies -- Product Equivalency Determination -- Crude Oil Equivalency -- Equivalency of Slop -- Chapter 16. Product Allocation -- Input Data -- Forecaster Changes -- Rules for Forecaster Changes -- Crude Oil Changes -- DOP "Loss" Adjustment -- Retrospective DOP -- Allocation of Balancing Grades -- Reverse Allocation -- Final Allocation -- Allocation LPs -- Process Unit Capacities -- Product Prices.

Summary of Primary Data Input for LPs -- Examination of LP Results -- Final Allocation Cycle -- Allocation Spreadsheet Program -- Product Allocation Problems -- Chapter 17. Available Tankage Capacity -- Estimation of Total Available Capacity -- Minimum and Maximum Inventory (LI and HI) -- Allocation of Tankage Capacity -- Ullage -- Ceding of Refinery Capacity -- Ceding of Tankage Capacity -- Chapter 18. Shipping Inventory Forecasts -- Weekly Production Estimates -- Refinery Estimate Schedule -- Procedure -- Allocation of Deltas -- Inventory and Ullage Forcasting System (Joint Ownership Refineries) -- Chapter 19. Refinery Operating Cost -- Allocation of Operating Cost -- System Costing Method -- Theoretical Sales Realization Valuation Method -- Cost Allocation for Actual Usage -- Unused Capacity Charge -- Appendix: Processing Agreement for Joint-Ownership Refinery -- Index.