Characterization and Properties of Petroleum Fractions (ASTM manual series)

Both petroleum professionals and those without a technical engineering background will find this unique new manual to be a vital and comprehensive reference for the petroleum industry in both processing and production. WHAT MAKES THIS MANUAL SO UNIQUE? • Presents over 600 predictive methods from theoretical to empirical, including the most widely used and most accurate ones for a wide range of conditions • Covers over 100 thermodynamic and physical properties, which are applicable to a wide range of pure compounds, mixtures, petroleum fractions, petroleum products, heavy residues, waxes, asphaltenes, crude oils, natural gases, reservoir fluids, and coal liquids. • Discusses light and heavy, liquid and vapor, and low and high pressure systems • Provides specific recommendations for each listed property and its applications • Includes solved practical problems and presents exercise problems with a large number of actual data for oils from around the world. This new manual is a unique and comprehensive resource for professionals in the petroleum industry, research, and government, as well as environmental organizations and academia.