Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology (2nd Edition)

by Heinz P. Bloch
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
  • Number Of Pages: 574
  • Publication Date: 2006-09-14
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471727938
  • ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471727934

  • Book Description:

    A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenance

    This text offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors. The author examines a wide spectrum of compressors used in heavy process industries, with an emphasis on improving reliability and avoiding failure. Readers learn both the theory underlying compressors as well as the myriad day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address.

    The text features:

    • Latest design and manufacturing details of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors
    • Examination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industries
    • Thorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressors
    • Guidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliability
    • Monitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery condition
    • Systematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement concepts
    • Fluid instability and externally pressurized bearings
    • Reliability-driven asset management strategies for compressors
    • Upstream separator and filter issues

    The text's structure is carefully designed to build knowledge and skills by starting with key principles and then moving to more advanced material. Hundreds of photos depicting various types of compressors, components, and processes are provided throughout.

    Compressors often represent a multi-million dollar investment for such applications as petrochemical processing and refining, refrigeration, pipeline transport, and turbochargers and superchargers for internal combustion engines. This text enables the broad range of engineers and plant managers who work with these compressors to make the most of the investment by leading them to the best decisions for selecting, operating, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting.


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Surface Production Operations, Volume 2

Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities
By Ken Arnold, Maurice Stewart
  • Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
  • Number Of Pages: 574
  • Publication Date: 1999-08-12
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0884158225
  • ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780884158226

Product Description:

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as:

* Heat recovery units
* Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators
* Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers
* Compressor valves
* Foundation design considerations for reciprocating compressors
* Pressure vessel issues and components
* Nox reduction in engines and turbines
* Safety management systems

This book walks you through the equipment and processes used in gas-handling operations to help you design and manage a production facility. Production engineers will keep this volume on the desktop for the latest information on how to DESIGN, SPECIFY, and OPERATE gas-handling systems and facilities. The book allows engineers with little or background in production facility design to easily locate details about equipment, processes, and design parameters. With this volume, you will more completely comprehend the techniques of handling produced fluids from gas wells so your facility can be more efficient and productive.

* Revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems at your fingertips
* Features brand new sections!


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Compressors, Third Edition: Selection and Sizing

  • By Royce N. Brown
  • Publisher:   Gulf Professional Publishing
  • Number Of Pages:   640
  • Publication Date:   2005-06-03
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0750675454
  • ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780750675451

Product Description: 

This practical reference provides in-depth information required to understand and properly estimate compressor capabilities and to select the proper designs. Engineers and students will gain a thorough understanding of compression principles, equipment, applications, selection, sizing, installation, and maintenance. The many examples clearly illustrate key aspects to help readers understand the "real world" of compressor technology.

Compressors: Selection and Sizing, third edition is completely updated with new API standards. Additions requested by readers include a new section on diaphragm compressors in the reciprocating compressors chapter, and a new section on rotor dynamics stability in the chapter on diaphragm compressors.

The latest technology is presented in the areas of efficiency, 3-D geometry, electronics, CAD, and the use of plant computers. The critical chapter on negotiating the purchase of a compressor now reflects current industry practices for preparing detailed specifications, bid evaluations, engineering reviews, and installation. A key chapter compares the reliability of various types of compressors.

* Everything you need to select the right compressor for your specific application.
* Practical information on compression principles, equipment, applications, selection, sizing, installation, and maintenance.
* New sections on diaphragm compressors and an introduction to rotor dynamics stability.

Compressor Handbook

Description:
The benchmark guide for compressor technology pros. You don't have to scour piles of technical literature for compressor answers any longer. This book packs all the answers on design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of compressors straight from top experts on these widely used machines.
Offers answers to a comprehensive collection of questions on the design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of all types of compressors. Shows how to design or select compressors for any use, with step-by-step procedures for fewer flaws or errors.

Relative Permeability of Petroleum Reservoirs

By Mehdi Matt Honarpour, Leonard F. Koederitz, A. Herbert Harvey
  • Publisher:   CRC
  • Number Of Pages:   152
  • Publication Date:   1986-01-24
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN:   084935739X
  • ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780849357398

Petroleum Engineering: Principles and Practice

by J.S. Archer, C.G. Wall  
Publisher: Springer
  • Number Of Pages: 350
  • Publication Date: 1986-06-30
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0860106659
  • ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780860106654

Petroleum Engineering Handbook

by H. B. Bradley (Editor)
  • Publisher:   Society of Petroleum
  • Number Of Pages:  
  • Publication Date:   1987-07
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1555630103
  • ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781555630102

Petroleum Products Handbook

  • By Virgil B. Guthrie (Author)
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (December 1960)
  • ISBN-10: 0070252955
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070252950

Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing

By Saeid Mokhatab William A. Poe James G. Speight

Summary: 
Because natural gas is just that-a gas-it is very difficult to collect, transmit, and process, unlike liquids. You can feel, see, and handle liquids, but not gas. Due to the very bright future of this expanding industry, more books are needed on the shelves of petroleum engineers who are moving from oil to natural gas markets. Most drilling and petroleum engineers were not schooled specifically as "petroleum engineers," and this creates a dearth of knowledge and expertise in the industrial literature. This gap is usually handled in intracompany ways, through mentoring, company guidelines, and rules of thumb. This book is the "must have" information for the industry today.

Gas Turbine Performance

By Philip P. Walsh Paul Fletcher

Table of Contents 

Foreword to the first edition 
Preface 
Gas turbine engine configurations 1 
1 Gas turbine engine applications 9 
2 The operational envelope 61 
3 Properties and charts for dry air, combustion products and other working fluids 102 
4 Dimensionless, quasidimensionless, referred and scaling parameter groups 143 
5 Gas turbine engine components 159 
6 Design point performance and engine concept design 292 
7 Off design performance 383 
8 Transient performance 444 
9 Starting 477 
10 Windmilling 501 
11 Engine performance testing 519 
12 The effects of water - liquid, steam and ice 564 
13 Fuel and oil properties and their impact 587 
14 Performance of in-service products 599 
15 Performance and the economics of gas turbine engines 607 
App. A Station numbering and nomenclature 617 
App. B: Unit conversions 625 
Index 631 

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Oil Field Chemicals

By: Fink, Johannes Karl

Description:
Oil field chemicals are gaining increasing importance, as the resources of crude oil are decreasing. An increasing demand of more sophisticated methods in the exploitation of the natural resources emerges for this reason. This book reviews the progress in the area of oil field chemicals and additives of the last decade from a rather chemical view. The material presented is a compilation from the literature by screening critically approximately 20,000 references. The text is ordered according to applications, just in the way how the jobs are emerging in practice. It starts with drilling, goes to productions and ends with oil spill. Several chemicals are used in multiple disciplines, and to those separate chapters are devoted. Two index registers are available, an index of chemical substances and a general index.

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Offshore Blowouts: Causes and Control

Author/Editor: By: Holand, Per
Description:

Discover why more than 100 offshore well operations erupted into destructive blowouts, and learn how to prevent them. This book, based on the SINTEF Offshore Blowout Database, helps you avoid the unfortunate mistakes of others. It thoroughly investigates and explains the blowouts that occurred from 1980 to 1994 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.
You will learn which operations (drilling, completion, production, workover, wireline) were in progress at the onset of 124 different blowouts. This book also reveals the causes for the loss of the primary and secondary barriers and outline the fatal accident rates.

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Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers: A Complete Course in Case Studies

Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers: A Complete Course in Case Studies
by Donald R. Woods

Book Description:

Chemical production processes consist of many complex apparatuses involving both moving and static parts as well as interconnecting pipes, control mechanisms and electronics, mechanical and thermal stages, heat exchangers, waste and side product processing units, power ducts and many others. Bringing such a complicated unit online and ensuring its continued productivity requires substantial skill at anticipating, detecting and solving acute problems. This book is the professional's and student's entrance to the fascinating and important world of trouble shooting for chemical, pharmaceutical and other production processes.

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Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks

Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks (Chemical Industries Series)
By Thomas R. Lynch
Book Description:

Advances in processing methods are not only improving the quality and yield of lubricant base stocks, they are also reducing the dependence on more expensive crude oil starting materials. Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks provides a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry behind the processes involved in petroleum base stock production from crude oil fractions.
This book examines hydroprocessing technologies that, driven by the demand for higher performance in finished lubricants, have transformed processing treatments throughout the industry. The author relates the properties of base stocks to their chemical composition and describes the process steps used in their manufacture. The book highlights catalytic processes, including hydrocracking, hydrofinishing, and catalytic dewaxing. It also covers traditional solvent-based separation methods used to remove impurities, enhance performance, and improve oxidation resistance. The final chapters discuss the production of Food Grade white oils and paraffins and the gas-to-liquids processes used to produce highly paraffinic base stocks via Fischer-Tropsch chemistry.
Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks provides historical and conceptual background to the technologies used to make base stocks, thorough references, and a unique emphasis on chemical, not just engineering, aspects of lubricant processingmaking this book an ideal and practical reference for scientists across a wide range of disciplines.
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Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing

Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing
By Chang S. Hsu, Paul R. Robinson

Product Description:
Want to know how to make ULSD? Formulate a lube base stock? Clean up an oil spill? Optimize an entire refinery? From oil production to product blending, Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing provides general overviews and in-depth reference material on these topics and scores of others. When you want information on the chemistry and technology of oil refining, look here first. Even if you don?t find what you need in this book, most likely it will lead you to the answer you need; our 50 contributors from 8 different countries in North America, Europe and Asia have provided hundreds of useful references. They represent oil companies, universities, catalyst vendors, process licensors, consultants and engineering contractors.

The breadth of this two-volume book is unique. It covers areas seldom found in other works on petroleum processing. These include refinery economics, model-predictive control, process modeling, online optimization, safety! , and environmental protection.
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Troubleshooting Process Operations


Troubleshooting Process Operations
By Norman P. Lieberman

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Thermal and Catalytic Processes in Petroleum Refining
By Serge Raseev
Book Description:

This text examines the thermal and catalytic processes involved in the refining of petroleum including visbreaking, coking, pyrolysis, catalytic cracking, oligomerization, alkylation, hydrofining, hydroisomerization, hydrocracking, and catalytic reforming. It analyses the thermodynamics, reaction mechanisms, and kinetics of each process, as well as the effects of operating conditions and reactor design on process performance and product quality. This is a valuable resource for chemists who wish to improve their knowledge of some of the real world issues that must be addressed in hydrocarbon conversion. Topics include processes on metallic catalysts, processes using bifunctional catalysts, and catalytic reforming.

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Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics
By James H. Gary, Glenn E. Handwerk


Book Description:

Continuing the high standards set by earlier editions, Petroleum Refining, Fourth Edition summarizes recent developments in oil refining processes, addressing topics ranging from basic applications to the implementation of viable operations that meet environmental and economic requirements. The authors maintain the clear, systematic style that made previous editions so popular. This edition reviews petroleum-refining technology and refining processes, incorporates recent statistics on utility data, investment, and operating costs, and considers environmental factors, the place of reformulated fuels in product distribution, and uses for heavier crude oils and those with higher sulfur and metal.

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Developments in Offshore Engineering

Author/Editor: Edited by: Herbich, John B.

Description:

Drawing from experts and top researchers from around the world, this book presents current developments in a variety of areas that impact offshore and ocean engineering.
Provides valuable insights into key aspects of wave-structure interaction, wave theory and prediction, mooring and cable dynamics, modeling laws, underwater acoustics, diving and life support systems.

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Gas Well Deliquification

Author/Editor: Lea, James; Nickens, Henry; Wells, Michael

Description:

No other book on the market offers such a turnkey solution to the problem of liquid interference in gas wells. This book contains not only descriptions of the various methods of de-watering gas wells, but also compares the various methods with a view toward explaining the suitability of each under particular circumstances. The material is presented as practical information that can be immediately applied, rather than a theoretical treatment. Also includes useful historical methods, but focuses on the latest techniques for de-watering gas wells.

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