Up-to-date strategies for tackling real-world fuel-related problems This fully revised guide shows, step-by-step, how to effectively solve fuel problems you might face in the field. Written by leading petroleum expert Kim B. Peyton, Nalco Champion Fuel Field Manual, 3rd Edition, covers the entire range of problems encountered during the refining, storage, transportation, delivery, and combustion processes. You will get the latest testing, troubleshooting, and problem solving techniques, as well as concise hazard information and detailed safety procedures. The book offers quick answers to difficult questions, taking you easily from problem to solution. Inside, you’ll find: • Crude oil and common hydrocarbon fuel properties • Identifying and solving specific fuel problems • Sources of fuel production problems • Physical and chemical measurements • Solving fuel problems using chemical additives • Start-to-finish testing methods • Fuel and fuel additive storage and injection systems • Safe shipping and hazard information • Fuel performance property and deposit analysis • Synthetic and alternative fuels

The Landmark Water Use and Treatment Resource—Fully Updated for Optimizing Water Processes This industry-standard resource from the world’s leading water management company offers practical guidance on the use and treatment of water and wastewater in industrial and institutional facilities. Revised to align with the latest regulations and technologies, The Nalco Water Handbook, Fourth Edition, explains water management fundamentals and clearly shows how to improve water quality, minimize usage, and optimize treatment processes. Throughout, new emphasis is placed on today’s prevailing issues, including water scarcity, stressors, and business risk. Covers all essential water treatment topics, including: • Water management fundamentals • The business case for managing water • Water sources, stressors, and quality • Basic water chemistry • Impurity removal • Steam generation • Cooling water systems • Safety for building water systems • Post-treatment • Energy in water systems • Water applications across various industries

Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids is a comprehensive manual that provides end users with information about oil field chemicals, such as drilling muds, corrosion and scale inhibitors, gelling agents and bacterial control. This book is an extension and update of Oil Field Chemicals published in 2003, and it presents a compilation of materials from literature and patents, arranged according to applications and the way a typical job is practiced. The text is composed of 23 chapters that cover oil field chemicals arranged according to their use. Each chapter follows a uniform template, starting with a brief overview of the chemical followed by reviews, monomers, polymerization, and fabrication. The different aspects of application, including safety and environmental impacts, for each chemical are also discussed throughout the chapters. The text also includes handy indices for trade names, acronyms and chemicals. Petroleum, production, drilling, completion, and operations engineers and managers will find this book invaluable for project management and production. Non-experts and students in petroleum engineering will also find this reference useful. - Chemicals are ordered by use including drilling muds, corrosion inhibitors, and bacteria control - Includes cutting edge chemicals and polymers such as water soluble polymers and viscosity control - Handy index of chemical substances as well as a general chemical index

A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate policies to achieve desired goals. One important theme of such policies is the so-called local content created by the sector—the extent to which the output of the extractive industry sector generates further benefits to the economy beyond the direct contribution of its value-added, through its links to other sectors. While local content policies have the potential to stimulate broad-based economic development, their application in petroleum-rich countries has achieved mixed results. This paper describes the policies and practices meant to foster the development of economic linkages from the petroleum sector, as adopted by a number of petroleum-producing countries both in and outside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Examples of policy objectives, implementation tools, and reporting metrics are provided to derive lessons of wider applicability. The paper presents various conclusions for policy makers about the design of local content policies.

Intended for courses on leadership, practicing managers, consultants, and practitioners, this approachable guide teaches readers about how to become a leader. By blending the real-world insights of business executive Al Bolea with tested research findings provided by leadership scholar Leanne Atwater, it effectively bridges theory and practice to outline powerful leadership behaviors. Based on Bolea’s original "J-Curve" model of leadership, the authors identify and describe nine essential elements for leadership mastery, including skills such as setting direction, creating key proceses, and nurturing behaviors. Each chapter pairs concrete narratives with succinct research synopses to show how to expand the potential of people and organizations. A unique, experiential text, Applied Leadership Development engages students with self-reflection and self-assessment exercises, and encourages them in their own development as future leaders.

THE ONE-STOP GUIDE TO SOLVING FUEL PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS--REVISED AND UPDATED TO MEET TODAY'S CHALLENGES! Here is all you need to solve practically every fuel problem you might face out in the field! Concise, comprehensive, and compact, this guide covers the entire range of fuel performance problems encountered during testing, storage, transportation, delivery, and combustion. Using a hands-on, practical approach and actual field examples to demonstrate concepts, leading petroleum industry expert Kim B. Peyton takes you step-by-step through: * Effective troubleshooting tactics * Test methods and test results * The most common sources of fuel problems * Chemical additive problems * Safetyand hazard management A unique roundup chapter draws together hard-to-find information on chemical storage tanks, fuel filters, flowmeters, metals, plastics, and more. This revised edition contains valuable new material such as: * Detailed sketches of fuel refining units, fuel pumps, and ASTM testing equipment * Time-saving charts describing fuel specifications * Expanded section on testing methods, to include several new tests that can identify and solve fuel performance problems Invaluable to professionals in every area of the petroleum industry--from refinery engineers to research chemists to technical service personnel and service managers--this resource quickly takes you from problem to resolution, saving you time and money. If you are looking for a one-stop answer book to all your fuel performance problems--the search ends here.

Oil field chemicals are gaining increasing importance, as the resources of crude oil are decreasing. An increasing demand of more sophisticated methods in the exploitation of the natural resources emerges for this reason. This book reviews the progress in the area of oil field chemicals and additives of the last decade from a rather chemical view. The material presented is a compilation from the literature by screening critically approximately 20,000 references. The text is ordered according to applications, just in the way how the jobs are emerging in practice. It starts with drilling, goes to productions and ends with oil spill. Several chemicals are used in multiple disciplines, and to those separate chapters are devoted. Two index registers are available, an index of chemical substances and a general index.* Gives an introduction to the chemically orientated petroleum engineer.* Provides the petroleum engineer involved with research and development with a quick reference tool. * Covers interdisciplinary matter, i.e. connects petroleum recovery and handling with chemical aspects.

Refinery and petrochemical engineers can turn to this guide for expert information on the sources of and solutions to the full range of fuel performance problems encountered during testing, storage, transportation, delivery, and combustion. Using actual field examples to demonstrate concepts, the book fully covers specific testing and analysis methods, fuel additive problems, safety and hazard guidelines, and trouble shooting techniques. This time- and money-saving resource also features specialized information on chemical storage tanks, fuel filters, flowmeters, metals, plastics, and more.

Environmental considerations are increasingly shaping the development of many industries. This is an overview of surfactants and the environment. It goes on to look at new surfactants derived from renewable, "natural" resources such as sucrose, seaweed and starch. Other chapters review a decade of change in the surfactant industry and assess future market trends. Some of the developments in surfactant technology are presented, including "gemini" twin-chained surfactants, sulfobetaines, alkyl phosphates and the use of alkyl alkoxylates and alkyl glucosides in highly alkaline solutions. The volume takes a practical approach throughout.