In Memoriam; Foreword; Preface; Contents; What Is Industrial Chemistry; Section 1: Raw Materials for the Chemical Process Industries; Petroleum and Its Products; Introduction; What Is Petroleum?; Primary Energy Sources Versus Energy Vectors.; Petroleum Products; People and Petroleum: A History; Ancient Times; After the Eighteenth Century; Modern Petroleum Industry; Companies; Reserves; Consumption; How Long Will It Last?; Untapped Sources of Energy: Conservation and Production Efficiency; Other Fossil Hydrocarbons; Natural Gas and Condensate; Bitumen, Asphalt, Tar; Coal and Kerogen.
Properties of PetroleumDensity, Distillation, and Elemental Composition; Molecular Composition; Paraffins; Hydrocarbon Ring Compounds (Naphthenes and Aromatics); Heteroatom Compounds; Continuity Principle; Crude Assay; Origin of Petroleum; Petroleum System; Exploration; Drilling and Production; Drilling; Directional and Horizontal Drilling; Completion; Production; Well Stimulation; Fracking to Produce Hydrocarbons from Tight Formations; Heavy Oil and Bitumen Production; Kerogen Conversion; Refining; Refinery Configuration Overview.
Crude Treatment, Crude Distillation, and Top-of-the Barrel ProcessingUpgrading Residue; Product Blending; Plantwide Systems; The Need for Conversion; Petroleum Refining Chemistry; Olefins: Saturation and Polymerization; Aromatics and Naphthenes: Saturation, Dehydrogenation, and Condensation; Hydrodesulfurization (HDS); Hydrodenitrogenation (HDN); Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO); Hydrodemetalation (HDM); Hydrogenative Removal of Microcarbon (HDCCR); Conversion; Chemistry of Conversion via Thermal Cracking; FCC Chemistry (Catalytic Cracking); Hydrocracking Chemistry (Catalytic)
Comparison of Catalytic and Thermal CrackingAlkylation Chemistry; Catalytic Reforming Chemistry; Isomerization Chemistry; SMR (Steam-Hydrocarbon Reforming) Chemistry; Acid/​Base Treating; Claus Process Chemistry; Mercaptan Oxidation Chemistry; Catalytic NOx Removal Chemistry; Reaction Thermochemistry; Petroleum Refining Processes; Crude Oil Preprocessing; Crude Distillation; Solvent Refining; Solvent Deasphalting; Solvent Extraction; Solvent Dewaxing; Wax Deoiling; Visbreaking; Coking; Delayed Coking; Fluid Coking; Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC); FCC Feed Pretreating.
FCC SOx Transfer AdditivesFCC Heat Balance; Residue FCC; FCC Gasoline Post-treating; Hydroprocessing; Hydrotreating; Fixed-Bed Hydrocracking; Ebullated Bed Hydrocracking (EBHC); Slurry-Phase Hydrocracking (SPHC); Catalytic Reforming; Isomerization; Alkylation; Modified Claus Process; Petroleum Refining Catalysts; Catalyst Manufacturing; Catalyst Deactivation; Spent Catalyst Handling; Petroleum Refinery Products; Product Specifications; Gasoline; Octane; Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP); Gasoline Blending; Reformulated Gasoline (RFG); Gasoline Additives; Ethanol in Gasoline.; Diesel Fuel.

This widely respected and frequently consulted reference work provides a wealth of information and guidance on industrial chemistry and biotechnology. Industries covered span the spectrum from salt and soda ash to advanced dyes chemistry, the nuclear industry, the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry, and, most recently, electrochemical energy storage devices and fuel cell science and technology. Other topics of surpassing interest to the world at large are covered in chapters on fertilizers and food production, pesticide manufacture and use, and the principles of sustainable chemical practice, referred to as green chemistry. Finally, considerable space and attention in the Handbook are devoted to the subjects of safety and emergency preparedness. It is worth noting that virtually all of the chapters are written by individuals who are embedded in the industries whereof they write so knowledgeably.