Petroleum Refining Design and Applications Handbook, Volume 4

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Petroleum Refining

Design and Applications

Handbook, Volume 4

A. Kayode Coker, Wiley, Hoboken,

NJ, $329, 1,088 pages, Feb. 2023,

ISBN: 978-1-119-82752-8

This book covers the most signicant

and recent changes to heat transfer and

pinch analysis in petroleum rening. It reviews the design

of heat exchanger equipment, crude oil fouling models, and

fouling mitigation and monitoring using Excel spreadsheets

and UniSim design software. The book covers shell-and-

tube heat exchangers, double-pipe heat exchangers, air-

cooled exchangers, heat loss tracing for process piping,

and pinch analysis for hot and cold utility targets. It also

discusses process safety incidents and relevant industrial

case studies involving these pieces of equipment.

Managing Engineering,

Procurement, Construction,

and Commissioning Projects

Avinashkumar V. Karre, Wiley,

Hoboken, NJ, $95, 192 pages, Oct.

2022, ISBN: 978-3-527-34836-7

Engineering, procurement, construction,

and commissioning (EPCC) infrastruc-

ture projects require engineers from

several disciplines. Chemical engineers involved in EPCC

projects often must ensure that the process plant is designed

correctly and safely; this may involve interacting with the

client, contributing to feasibility studies, selecting specic

technologies, developing process ow diagrams, and other

key tasks. This book denes the role of a chemical engi-

neer in the EPCC industry and describes each phase of an

EPCC project.

For Blood and Money:

Billionaires, Biotech, and the

Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

Nathan Vardi, W. W. Norton

& Company, New York, NY, $30,

288 pages, Jan. 2023, ISBN:

978-0-393-54095-6

This book reviews what it takes to bring

a wonder drug to market by telling the

story of how an upstart biotechnology

company created a one-in-a-million cancer treatment. The

story follows a small team at a California biotech start-up

that discovered a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor

compound. Today, this wonder drug is being used to treat a

serious form of leukemia. The book illustrates why it is so

hard to bring new drugs to market.

How to Grow

Your Small Business

Donald Miller, HarperCollins

Leadership, Nashville, TN, $27,

224 pages, March 2023, ISBN:

978-1-400-22695-5

Small businesses play a vital role in the

economy, but running them is no easy

feat. This book describes a six-step plan

that small business owners can use to

grow their businesses and generate dependable revenue. The

book covers how to cast a vision for your company, clarify

your marketing message, implement a successful sales frame-

work, optimize your product offering, and run a management

and productivity playbook that aligns your entire team.

Sulfuric Acid Digestion,

Sulfuric Acid Baking, and

Sulfation Roasting in Mineral

and Chemical Processing,

and Extractive Metallurgy

François Cardarelli, Electrochem

Technologies & Materials, Inc.,

Montreal, Quebec, $150, 301 pages,

Dec. 2022, ISBN: 978-1-777-57692-9

This book reviews the industrial use

of sulfuric acid and describes the sulfation techniques used

extensively in the mineral, chemical, and metallurgical

industries across the globe. It provides relevant scientic

and technical information for each major industrial process.

It also describes several novel sulfation technologies that

might be implemented in the near future. The book is a use-

ful reference for those who work in the chemical and metal

industries, including those in nontechnical positions.

A Real-Time Approach to

Distillation Process Control

Brent R. Young, Michael A. Taube,

and Isuru A. Udugama, Wiley,

Hoboken, NJ, $160, 256 pages,

Feb. 2023, ISBN: 978-1-119-66921-0

This book discusses the fundamental

knowledge and tools required to apply

modern distillation control principles. It

offers a balanced, real-time approach to

distillation process control with practical insights. The book

covers distillation control hardware, distillation composi-

tion control, renery vs. chemical plant distillation control,

distillation control tuning, and advanced regulatory control,

among others. In addition, it includes hands-on modeling

and simulation exercises that can be performed on the pro-

cess simulator locally available to the reader.