1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456521203321

Titolo

Fundamentals of petroleum refining [[electronic resource] /] / by Mohamed A. Fahim, Taher A. Alsahhaf, and Amal Elkilani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier, c2010

ISBN

1-282-54104-8

9786612541049

0-08-093156-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FahimM. A

AlsahhafTaher A

ElkilaniAmal Sayed

Disciplina

665.53

Soggetti

Petroleum - Refining

Petroleum industry and trade

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Refining Processes; 1.2.1. Physical Separation Processes; 1.2.1.1. Crude Distillation; 1.2.1.2. Solvent Deasphalting; 1.2.1.3. Solvent Extraction; 1.2.1.4. Solvent Dewaxing; 1.2.2. Chemical Catalytic Conversion Processes; 1.2.2.1. Catalytic Reforming; 1.2.2.2. Hydrotreating; 1.2.2.3. Catalytic Hydrocracking; 1.2.2.4. Catalytic Cracking; 1.2.2.5. Alkylation; 1.2.2.6. Isomerization; 1.2.3. Thermal Chemical Conversion Processes; 1.2.3.1. Delayed Coking

1.2.3.2. Flexicoking1.2.3.3. Visbreaking; 1.3. Refinery Configuration; 1.3.1. Type of Products; 1.3.2. Environmental Regulation; 1.3.3. Crude Assay and Quality; 1.3.4. Refinery-petrochemical Integration; 1.3.5. Development of New Technology; References; Chapter 2: Refinery Feedstocks and Products; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Composition of Crude Oils; 2.2.1. Paraffins; 2.2.2. Olefins; 2.2.3. Naphthenes (cycloalkanes); 2.2.4. Aromatics; 2.2.5. Sulphur Compounds; 2.2.6. Oxygen Compounds; 2.2.7. Nitrogen Compounds; 2.2.8. Metallic Compounds;



2.2.9. Asphaltenes and Resins; 2.3. Products Composition

2.3.1. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)2.3.2. Gasoline; 2.3.3. Kerosene; 2.3.4. Jet Fuel; 2.3.5. Diesel Fuel; 2.3.6. Fuel Oil; 2.3.7. Residual Fuel Oil; 2.3.8. Lube Oil; 2.3.9. Asphalt; 2.3.10. Petroleum Coke; 2.4. Physical Property Characterization Data; 2.4.1. Fractionation; 2.4.2. True Boiling Point Distillation; 2.4.3. ASTM Distillation; 2.4.4. Simulated Distillation by Gas Chromatography; 2.4.5. API Gravity; 2.4.6. Pour Point; 2.4.7. Viscosity; 2.4.8. Refractive Index; 2.4.9. Freezing Point; 2.4.10. Aniline Point; 2.4.11. Flash Point; 2.4.12. Octane Number; 2.4.13. Cetane Number

2.4.14. Smoke Point2.4.15. Reid Vapour Pressure; 2.4.16. Water, Salt and Sediment; 2.4.17. Molecular Weight; 2.5. Chemical Analysis Data; 2.5.1. Elemental Analysis; 2.5.2. Carbon Residue; 2.5.3. Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis; 2.5.4. Hydrocarbon Family Analysis; 2.5.5. Aromatic Carbon Content; 2.5.6. SARA Analysis; References; Chapter 3: Thermophysical Properties of Petroleum Fractions and Crude Oils; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Basic Input Data; 3.2.1. Specific Gravity; 3.2.2. Boiling Point Curves; 3.2.3. ASTM Distillation; 3.2.4. True Boiling Point Distillation

3.2.5. Conversion between ASTM and TBP Distillation3.3. Pseudo-Components; 3.3.1. Breakup of TBP Curve into Pseudo-components; 3.3.2. Breakup of TBP Curve into Pseudo-componentsUsing Generalized Form; 3.3.3. Calculation of Pseudo-components Specific Gravities; 3.4. Thermophysical Properties Calculation; 3.4.1. Molecular Weight; 3.4.2. Viscosity; 3.4.3. Refractive Index; 3.4.4. Molecular Type Composition of Petroleum Fractions; 3.4.5. Pseudo-critical Constants and Acentric Factors; 3.4.5.1. Pseudo-critical Temperature; 3.4.5.2. Pseudo-critical Pressure; 3.4.5.3. Acentric Factor

3.4.6. Generalized Equation for Thermophysical Properties

Sommario/riassunto

Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining provides a thorough and balanced introduction to refinery engineering topics, from basic concepts and unit operations to overall refinery economics, planning and control. Based on the fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics, the text develops the scientific background needed to understand refinery operations, provides an in-depth description of major refinery processes, and then assimilates an integrated refinery by focusing on the economic and operational aspects for enhancing performance and profitability. Important subjects which are not comm



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143447003321

Titolo

A companion to modernist literature and culture / / edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2006

ISBN

9786610361878

9781782686200

1782686207

9781280361876

1280361875

9781405165372

1405165375

9780470996331

0470996331

9781405154673

1405154675

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (618 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 39

Altri autori (Persone)

BradshawDavid <1955->

DettmarKevin J. H. <1958->

Disciplina

820.9/112

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New; 1 Philosophy; 2 Religion; 3 Politics; 4 The Physical Sciences; 5 The Biological; 6 Technology; 7 Psychology; 8 Anthropology; 9 Obscenity and Censorship; 10 Language; 11 Geography; 12 Publishing; 13 Sex and Sexuality; PART II Movements; 14 Literary Symbolism; 15 Dada; 16 Futurism; 17 Vorticism; 18 Imagism; 19 Surrealism; 20 Expressionism; 21 Literary Impressionism; PART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media; 22 The Novel; 23 Poetry; 24 Drama



25 The Visual Arts26 Film; 27 Music; 28 Dance; 29 Architecture; 30 Photography; PART IV Readings; 31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger!; 32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood; 33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy; 34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; 35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land; 36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury; 37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; 38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier; 39 The Poetry of H. D.; 40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew; 41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God; 42 James Joyce: Ulysses; 43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love; 44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr

45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker46 Marianne Moore: Observations; 47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; 48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage; 49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives; 50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium; 51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts; 52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson; 53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse; 54 Richard Wright: Native Son; 55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928); 56 Modernist Critical Prose; Part V Other Modernisms; 57 Modernism and Race; 58 Modernism and Gender; 59 Modernism Queered; 60 Postcolonial; 61 Global Modernisms; 62 Postmodernism; Epilogue: Modernism Now; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and cultureBroad in scope and comprehensive in coverageIncludes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the AtlanticBrings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896530903321

Autore

McGregor Glenn

Titolo

Heatwaves : Causes, Consequences and Responses / / by Glenn McGregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-69906-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (739 pages)

Collana

Biometeorology, , 2452-1558 ; ; 6

Disciplina

363.3492

Soggetti

Natural disasters

Physical geography

Epidemiology

Environmental health

Natural Hazards

Earth System Sciences

Environmental Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Heatwaves as Weather and Climate Phenomenon -- Chapter 1. Heatwaves -- Chapter 2. Defining Heatwaves -- Chapter 3. Heatwaves as Extreme Events -- Chapter 4. The Physical Nature of Heat and its Measurement -- Part II. Physical Causes of Heatwaves -- Chapter 5. Modes of Climate Variability -- Chapter 6. Synoptic Scales Atmospheric Processes and Heatwaves -- Chapter 7. Surface Atmosphere Interactions and Heatwaves -- Chapter 8. The Urban Surface and Heatwaves -- Part III. Heatwave Consequences -- Chapter 9. Conceptualising and Assessing Heatwave Impacts -- Chapter 10. Exposure and Vulnerability as Modifiers of Heatwave Impacts -- Chapter 11. Observed Impacts of Heatwaves -- Part IV. Heatwave Responses -- Chapter 12. Heatwave Responses: Adaptation -- Chapter 13. Heatwave Responses: Early Warning Systems -- Chapter 14. Heatwave Responses: Mitigation -- Chapter 15. Synthesis and Directions for Future Enquiry.

Sommario/riassunto

Distinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding



of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human and natural systems and societal responses to them in the form of adaptation and mitigation actions. It advocates for recognizing "the heatwave imperative" and emphasizes that “heatwaves matter”. Together, the individual chapters make the point that “knowing heatwaves” from a holistic interdisciplinary perspective will assist with efforts towards heatwave risk reduction and building resilience to what is probably the most pervasive of a range of climate hazards. The book will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and taught postgraduate students and researchers in geography, climatology, environmental, atmospheric and population health sciences as well as climate and health researchers, urban planners, policy makers and the informed public with an interest in climate and society issues.