01.08.2014 • Topics

Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations

Divided into three main sections, this book familiarizes readers with the area of planning in petroleum refining and petrochemical industry, while introducing several planning and modeling strategies encompassing single site refinery plants, multiple refinery networks, petrochemical networks, and refinery and petrochemical planning systems.
It provides an insight into possible research directions and recommendations for the area of refinery and petrochemical planning. Several appendices are included to explain the general background necessary, including stochastic programming, chance constraint programming, and robust optimization.

Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations
Khalid Y. Al-Qahtani, Ali Elkamel
Wiley-VCH
Price: € 79,90
ISBN 13: 978-3-527-32694-5

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