Petrochemical economics : technology selection in a carbon constrained world /

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This compendium gives an overview of the technologies and economics in the production of olefins in the petrochemical industries. It highlights the options and costs for producing olefins using different technologies and different feedstocks at a time when the cost of carbon dioxide emissions are se...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seddon, Duncan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; World Scientific Pub., ©2010.
Series:Catalytic science series ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Petroleum chemicals industry > Costs.
Petroleum chemicals industry > Technological innovations.
Industrie pétrochimique > Coût.
Industrie pétrochimique > Innovations.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > General.
Petroleum chemicals industry > Costs
Petroleum chemicals industry > Technological innovations
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • World ethylene production by steam cracking
  • Chemistry of olefin production
  • Gaseous feedstocks
  • production and price
  • Liquid feedstock, production and price
  • Value of products, storage and transport
  • Carbon dioxide emissions
  • Ethane cracking
  • LPG cracking
  • Liquid feedstock cracking
  • Other routes to olefins from hydrocarbons
  • Routes to olefins from coal
  • Closing remarks.

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