Chemical Engineering - OIL - Gary, J. & Handwerk, G. - Petroleum Refining, technology_and_economics (Marcel Dekker, 2001)(1).pdf

文档介绍：Petroleum
Refining
Technology and
Economics
Fourth Edition
James H. Gary
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado
Glenn E. Handwerk
Consulting Chemical Engineer
Golden, Colorado
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Preface
Today refiners are facing investments of billions of dollars in equipment to meet
environmental requirements frequently set by political stipulation with little re-
gard to true economic and environmental impacts. Guidelines set up by laws
and regulations are changed frequently. Since the design and building of new
processing units entail several years of lead time, refiners are reluctant mit
millions or billions of dollars to constructing equipment that may no longer meet
requirements when the e on stream. For the ‘‘short-term’’ period much
effort is being devoted to the development of reformulated fuels that have a mini-
mal impact on degradation of the environment. We say ‘‘short-term’’ because
laws have already been