Handbook of Petroleum Processing

Steven A. Treese retired from Phillips 66 in 2013 as the Hydro processing Team Lead after 40 years; but continues to take on the occasional consulting assignment in process engineering and refining. He started his professional career with Union Oil Company of California in 1973 as a Research Engineer with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University. He followed company heritages through Unocal, Tosco, Phillips, ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66. Steve's range of experience includes catalyst development, hydro processing, hydrogen production, utilities, sulfur recovery, geothermal, shale oil, nitrogen fertilizers, process design, procurement and licensing. He is a licensed Professional Engineer. Steve has several publications, a few patents and was on the 1994 NPRA Question and Answer Panel. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Steve's hobbies include woodworking, boating, fermentation and photography. He is a mentor for FIRST Robotics Team 624, CRyptonite, in Katy, Texas.Peter Pujadó retired from UOP LLC (a Honeywell subsidiary) in 2005 as Senior Manager/R&D Fellow responsible for the development and commercialization of technologies for the production of light olefins (ethylene and propylene) by the catalytic conversion of methanol. He started his career as a lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in Manchester, England; he then worked as a process engineer for SA Cros in Barcelona, Spain, in areas as diverse as chlorine, caustic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ammonia, urea, nitric acid, and NPK fertilizers; he joined UOP LLC as a R&D process coordinator responsible for the production of cumene, phenol/acetone, aromatics isomerization, aromatics disproportionation and transalkylation, terephthalic acid, acrylonitrile, acetic acid, etc. After retirement from UOP LLC, he again worked as a lecturer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and has done some consulting in the petrochemicals area. Peter had graduated with an MS in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Chicago; he is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Fellow member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is the author of over 95 papers and publications and of 44 patents. Peter’s hobbies include travel, mountain hiking and reading.

From the Contents: An introduction to crude oil and its processing.- Petroleum products and refinery configuration.- The atmospheric and vacuum crude distillation units.- The distillation of the "Light Ends" from crude oil.- Catalytic reforming.- Fluid catalytic cracking.