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Delivered in a PDF format, this comprehensive 239-page guidebook compiles all 2017 articles from Chemical Engineering magazine, including Feature Reports and Cover Stories. Designed for chemical engineers, these practical, how-to articles provide...

This comprehensive PDF guidebook provides descriptions of major battery technologies and materials in the advanced and next-generation battery markets, along with information on companies operating in these industries. It covers both established firms...

Valves are an essential part of all chemical process industries (CPI) operations. This guidebook provides practical engineering guidance for selecting, specifying, and sizing control valves, pressure-relief valves, and emergency shutdown devices to...

Valves are essential throughout chemical process industries (CPI) operations, and proper engineering attention is required to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and safety. This guidebook provides actionable engineering guidance on control valves,...

This guidebook exclusively features air emissions articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Explores methods for measuring and mitigating SO₂, NOₓ,...

This Chemical Engineering resource contains complete tutorial-style engineering articles. The collection provides recommendations for minimizing fugitive emissions from pumps, valves, and piping systems through proper equipment selection and use of...

This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains practical, how-to engineering articles from Chemical Engineering magazine. The volume focuses on monitoring, controlling, and managing vapor and particulate emissions that can arise during chemical process...

The Pigging Products & Services Association was formed in 1990 with the following stated aims: To promote the knowledge and practice of pipeline pigging, and to ensure that the Members are aware of the needs of the markets for the related products...

Since the year 2000, unconventional shale plays have contributed greatly to the global oil and gas supply, particularly in the United States. Understanding and managing these resources requires a unique understanding about the geology, geophysics, rock...

This guidebook exclusively features benchmarking articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Comprehensive benchmarking data for fossil, nuclear, and...

This comprehensive guidebook exclusively features boiler operations articles, complete with full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions. The content, drawn from POWER magazine and powermag.com, provides practical, field-tested...

This title details the operation and application of logging tools and services, with emphasis on the physical sense of what each tool does and how it does it. The book provides current, comprehensive solutions for both traditional and new oilfield...

This Chemical Engineering Guidebook compiles all 2017 Chementator articles, highlighting innovative and novel technologies being commercialized or scaled up for the first time. Chementators identify unique benefits of proven technologies and approaches...

Throughout the chemical process industries, proper maintenance is essential to ensure the safe and reliable operation of facilities. Engineers increasingly recognize the direct impact that proactive maintenance has on budgets and overall profitability...

This guidebook exclusively features clean coal and carbon capture articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Comprehensive coverage of carbon...

This guidebook exclusively features clean coal articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Provides detailed guidance on clean coal technologies and...

This guidebook features articles originally published in POWER magazine. Included are full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions for quick and practical reference. Topics cover coal combustion, biomass cofiring, boiler tuning,...

This guidebook exclusively features the top coal plant articles, covering locations around the globe. It highlights successful technologies, operational practices, and performance metrics, and includes full charts, photographs, and graphs previously...

ReviewIt's 239 pages. That's it. Pared down to remove fluff and to pass on such a tremendous wealth of knowledge, it brought a smile to my face because I saw the gentle hand of Corrine, his wife, burning the midnight oil, to ensure there was an economy...

With this third edition, international expert Rolf Kehlhofer leads a team of eminent engineers for the long awaited update of the bible for combined-cycle plants. Combined-Cycle Gas & Steam Turbine Power Plants, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive...

This guidebook exclusively features combustion turbines and combined cycle articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Table of Contents Siemens G-Class Technology Builds...

This updated guidebook exclusively features articles on combustion turbines and combined cycle power plants, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features &...

Volume One of this two-part guidebook series contains tutorial-style articles that provide clear engineering recommendations related to the selection of compressors. Special focus is placed on cost-engineering and energy-efficiency considerations...

The second volume in Chemical Engineering’s series on control and automation examines control systems at the plant level and discusses strategies for specific process operations and plant variables. This guidebook covers the selection and...

Designed for operators and controllers in industrial plants and facilities who are responsible for the minute by minute, shift after shift control room operations. This first-of-a-kind handbook is a ready, by-the-side, resource for use during all shift...

Corrosion and fouling are unavoidable in chemical process operations, yet both can have severe consequences if left unchecked. This guidebook provides a collection of practical engineering articles addressing corrosion and fouling issues across a variety...

Corrosion and fouling are unavoidable in chemical process operations, yet they can seriously impact process efficiency, equipment reliability, safety, and profitability. This guidebook provides a collection of practical engineering articles offering...

This guidebook exclusively features cooling water and condensers articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Comprehensive coverage of cooling water...

This guidebook exclusively features cooling water and condensers articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously published in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Provides practical guidance on cooling...

Delivered in a PDF format, this guidebook exclusively features corrosion and chemistry articles for power plants. All content was previously published in POWER magazine, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions for plant...

Cost estimation and project management are essential activities in countless chemical process industries (CPI) operations. This Chemical Engineering guidebook compiles practical, tutorial-style articles from previous issues of Chemical Engineering to...

Nowhere is proper cost estimation and project management more important than in startups, revamps, and turnaround projects that happen every day throughout the global chemical process industries (CPI). The articles in this Chemical Engineering Guidebook...

Chemical Engineering’s cover stories provide concise, practical, and factual information designed to solve real-world chemical engineering problems. The how-to orientation ensures these articles can be applied directly in daily engineering work,...

A general background of SCADA system technology and cybersecurity concepts and technologies, showing how the two can be brought together to safeguard our infrastructure and computer automation systems. This book provides a high-level overview of...

This PDF guidebook features articles originally published in POWER magazine covering a range of cybersecurity issues in the power generation industry. It provides clear, practical answers to common questions and strategies to protect critical...

This is an indispensable tool in the oil, gas and energy industries. The information included in this book has made writing tasks within energy and its related industries simpler and has, through the years, added consistency to industry reports. The 6th...

"I commend this book to you…Without doubt, our industry needs this book. I could not be more enthusiastic about its content." -Jack Little, President and CEO (retired), Shell Oil Company The second edition of this best-selling book is the most...

Distillation remains a cornerstone unit operation in chemical process plants. Designing, specifying, operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and revamping columns are all critical to achieving safe, efficient, and cost-effective plant operations. This...

Distillation is one of the most fundamental unit operations in chemical process plants. Proper design, specification, operation, and maintenance of distillation columns are critical to optimal plant performance. Modern revamps often include...

A completely rewritten and updated overview of onshore and offshore drilling operations and technology. Takes readers through the entire drilling process from basic drilling geology through managing drilling operations. The updated edition covers key...

Dive into the world of petroleum property economic evaluation. Gain insights into the purposes and applications of economic evaluations in oil and gas investments. Explore the interaction between production, sales, operating costs, taxes, third-party...

This book is, simply put, the layman’s handbook. The text you are about to read is specifically written for all those non-technical individuals who are wanting to learn the fundamentals of one of the largest and most fascinating industries in the...

This guidebook exclusively features electrical and transmission & distribution (T&D) articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously featured in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Provides...

This book is a reference guide to the broad range of topics that fall under the umbrella of “pipeline integrity.” It is a compilation of the common terms, concepts, technologies and methods that one is likely to encounter in study, research...

This book focuses primarily on the energy products that are financially traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange: crude oil, natural gas, unleaded gasoline, and heating oil. These commodities are the most common ones used for hedging energy commodity...

For operators and facility managers in the chemical process industries (CPI), proper maintenance goes hand in hand with plant and process safety. This Chemical Engineering Guidebook includes a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles providing...

For process operators throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), proper maintenance is essential to ensure the safe and reliable operation of CPI facilities. This PDF provides practical guidance to help CPI facilities plan and manage maintenance...

Hydraulic fracturing was first developed in the United States during the 1940s and has since spread internationally. A proven technology that is reaching deeper and tighter formations, hydraulic fracturing now delivers hydrocarbons from fields previously...

Proper use of instrumentation is an integral element of monitoring and control in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities. This guidebook provides a diverse collection of articles related to the specification, operation, maintenance, and...

Treating inlet water to make it suitable for process use, and treating industrial wastewater for reuse or safe discharge, are major undertakings in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities. This PDF guidebook provides practical engineering...

Chemical Engineering’s Facts At Your Fingertips package includes a series of twelve condensed, one-page reference cards that provide useful rules of thumb, common equations, and other practical tips for designing, operating, and maintaining...

Chemical Engineering’s Facts At Your Fingertips package includes a series of twelve condensed, one-page reference cards that provide useful rules of thumb, common equations, and other practical tips for designing, operating, and maintaining...

This Chemical Engineering guidebook features a collection of twelve condensed, one-page reference cards from Chemical Engineering magazine. Each “Facts at Your Fingertips” sheet provides useful rules of thumb, common equations, and practical...

Chemical Engineering’s Feature Reports provide concise, factual information that aids in solving real problems. The practical, how-to orientation ensures that the articles can be directly applied to chemical engineers’ daily jobs. Each story...

Chemical Engineering’s Feature Reports provide concise, factual information that aids in solving real problems. The practical, how-to orientation of these articles ensures that they can be directly applied to chemical engineers’ daily jobs...

This guidebook exclusively features plant operations and maintenance articles, including full charts, photographs, graphs, and step-by-step instructions, previously published in POWER magazine. Features & Benefits Provides practical guidance on...

This Chemical Engineering Guidebook features a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles to guide process engineers on the proper selection, design, operation, and maintenance of systems used in crystallization and related unit operations...

Fundamentals of International Oil & Gas Law provides a foundation for understanding legal problems commonly encountered in conducting business in the oil and gas industry. Written for a global audience, William Hughes devotes substantial attention to...

The definitive work on riser behavior, which will be of permanent value to engineers confronted by riser analysis problems whether they are university students or drilling veterans with extensive experience. This book is based on the author's 28 years of...

Cleaner and more versatile than other hydrocarbons, natural gas has never had a brighter future. In this new edition of Fundamentals of Natural Gas, author Vivek Chandra thoroughly explains the massive evolution of natural gas and LNG, from...

Dr. Charlotte Wright updates her indispensable accounting book for the oil and gas industry in this revised and expanded sixth edition. The past several years have seen significant new accounting and disclosure rules for the oil and gas industry. To...

Trading in energy futures and options plays a key role in hedging against fluctuations in the price of energy commodities, especially crude oil and natural gas. This long-awaited new edition highlights how exchange-traded futures and options markets work...

A specialized professional book that covers all aspects of production optimization of gas lift systems. This book captures how to optimize gas lifted fields using various modeling tools and communications technologies. This book presents a holistic...

Encompassing more than 20,000 terms, the fourth edition of this best-seller is updated by 20% and draws heavily from the editorial contents of Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamérica, as a source of new technical terminology and of the local usage in...

The first edition of Handbook of Oil Industry Terms & Phrases was published in 1974 and new editions followed in 1977, 1981, 1984, and 1994. The goal was to capture not only the technical complexity of the oil field but its history. The result was a...

The field of heat exchangers is driven by practical engineering demands. These systems must withstand extreme operating conditions—such as high pressures and temperatures—while minimizing material use and maximizing thermal performance per...

This handbook presents, now in its 2nd completely revised and expanded edition, the most important technologies concerning the reduction of fouling in heat exchangers. Coverage includes constructional considerations, prevention measures, and appropriate...

Heavy crude oils have a unique chemical nature that creates many technical challenges. In this new book, four heavy oil and bitumen experts deliver a comprehensive look at the complexities of this alternative petroleum resource. With its high viscosity...

This book is not a traditional book on sales. The focus is tactical as well as strategic. Big questions are answered. How do capital goods need to be sold? What sales approach and tactics are recommended? What's the difference between a standard versus...

The objective of this book is to show how a salesperson can gain the enviable position of being the customer’s sincere preference for doing business. Much has been written about perfecting sales techniques, in this informative book author James R...

This PDF guidebook provides an introduction to all aspects of heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) engineering. Coverage ranges from market surveys, heat balances, and mechanical design to operation of HRSGs. Both theory and practical applications are...

While hydrogen has always played an important role in the chemical process industries (CPI), it has gained significant attention recently for its potential as a “green” fuel source. Decarbonization targets and improved technologies are...

Ensuring optimal plant reliability in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities requires attention to day-to-day operations of equipment components and systems. Small issues can escalate into major, even catastrophic, events, impacting safety,...

The key to ensuring optimal plant reliability in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities is to have proper management strategies in place, to ensure safe, appropriate day-to-day activities. This PDF shares a wealth of engineering recommendations and...

Volume one of this two-part guidebook contains practical, how-to engineering articles and useful “Facts at Your Fingertips” tip sheets, all originally published in Chemical Engineering. The content focuses on improving reliability across a...

This second volume of a two-part guidebook contains practical, tutorial-style engineering articles and tip sheets originally published in Chemical Engineering. The focus is on broad, plant-wide safety practices, with engineering guidance for reducing...

This Chemical Engineering guidebook provides detailed engineering guidance for safeguarding chemical process operations, protecting personnel, plant assets, and the environment. Articles focus on managing pressure buildup, mitigating fire and explosion...

Proper management strategies and methodologies are an essential part of safeguarding chemical process operations and protecting personnel and plant assets. This Chemical Engineering guidebook provides guidance for improving plant safety and reducing the...

A variety of industrial gases — including nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, argon and other noble gases — are either produced onsite or transported to chemical process industries (CPI) facilities, where they are stored and used onsite. Used...

This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains practical, how-to engineering articles from Chemical Engineering and POWER magazines. The volume focuses on industrial uses of water, including cooling towers, condensers, boilers, process fluids, and wash...

Volume 1 of this two-part guidebook contains useful “Facts at Your Fingertips” guide sheets, and practical, how-to engineering articles, all of which were originally published in Chemical Engineering. Proper selection, specification, and use...

Volume 2 of this two-part guidebook contains “Facts at Your Fingertips” guide sheets and practical, how-to engineering articles, originally published in Chemical Engineering. Instrumentation provides essential information to operators in...

This practical textbook contains toolbox of models, along with institutional, technological, and historical information on oil, coal, gas, and electricity (including Renewables). It provides managers and supervisors in the power and petroleum fields...

International Petroleum Accounting 2nd edition is a comprehensive, cover-to-cover revision of the International Petroleum Accounting 1st edition. This book uniquely presents a comprehensive guide to both U.S. accounting standards and the International...

Subsurface mapping is a way to visualize and spatially characterize subsurface properties, and well logs are often the dataset used to generate and calibrate these maps. The correlation of basic geophysical logs rapidly enables oneself to begin to...

A manager is not always a leader. Are you a leader? Would your team run through a wall for you? Do you feel like you are out on an island? You may manage but do you lead? You should be asking yourself these questions daily. If your goal is to lead your...

This guidebook exclusively features articles covering a wide array of legal and regulatory issues in the power generation industry. All content was previously featured in POWER magazine, making it a practical reference for business and legal questions...

The world changed in 2020. An outbreak of Covid-19 turned into a worldwide pandemic followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine just two years later. Two black swan events in the span of 24 months. LNG: After the Pandemic dives into the lessons learned...

“A thorough overview of LNG. A must-read for anyone in the energy industry.” --Lucio A. Noto, former Vice Chairman, ExxonMobil, and Chairman/CEO, Mobil Corporation “A sweeping review of LNG. It will be considered the industry’s...

The term "local content" refers to the value petroleum activities bring to a country beyond the direct revenues from hydrocarbons. Job creation, economic development, transfer of technology, and the infusion of talent and education all contribute to...

More than two million miles of local distribution pipelines deliver natural gas to homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals throughout United States, and many more serve the rest of the world. These small-diameter, low-pressure pipelines serve as a...

Managing Air Pollution: Fugitive Emissions – Guidebook This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains tutorial-style engineering and “Facts at Your Fingertips” articles focused on monitoring and managing vapor and particulate emissions...

This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains tutorial-style engineering and “Facts at Your Fingertips” articles. Coverage includes strategies for minimizing fugitive emissions from valves, pumps, tanks, and piping systems through proper...

The need to select and properly manage chemicals — including raw materials and intermediates, process aids, heat-transfer fluids, solvents, lubricants, catalysts, and more — is ubiquitous throughout the chemical process industries (CPI)...

This comprehensive guide delves into human resource management across every facet of the oil and gas sector. The authors provide a thorough exploration of HR management's critical roles in staffing, training, performance evaluation, compensation, and...

An introduction to managing threats to pipeline safety and operations, this new book examines all the types of threats – from illegal tapping to corrosion, cracking, accidental third-party damage, geotechnical hazards and defective construction...

Throughout chemical process industries (CPI), producing and using steam efficiently is essential for energy management, safety, and operational reliability. This PDF provides a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles with guidance on...

This guidebook contains practical, how-to engineering articles originally published in Chemical Engineering, including useful tip sheets from Chemical Engineering’s “Facts at Your Fingertips.” The collection of tutorial-style articles...

Steve Elonka began chronicling the exploits of Marmaduke Surfaceblow—a fictional six-foot-four marine engineer with a steel brush mustache and a foghorn voice—in POWER magazine in 1948, when he raised the wooden mast of the SS Asia Sun with...

Volume two of this Chemical Engineering series addresses corrosion challenges across a variety of chemical process equipment. Articles focus on practical, actionable strategies for assessing, preventing, and mitigating corrosion in piping, heat...