Petroleum Refining: Technology, Economics, and Markets, Sixth Edition
暫譯: 石油精煉：技術、經濟與市場，第六版

在過去四十年中，石油精煉引導了成千上萬的讀者對該領域有可靠的理解，並且多年來已成為世界各地許多學校和大學提供石油精煉課程的標準教材，適用於自學、培訓以及作為業界專業人士的參考書。

本書的第六版延續了吉姆·蓋瑞（Jim Gary）所設定的傳統，成為該領域中最現代且權威的指南。書中更新並擴展了新技術、方法和主題的內容，包括對精煉業務和經濟學、成本估算和複雜性、原油來源和性質、燃料規格，以及技術、工藝單元和催化劑的最新資訊進行了新的討論。

本書的前半部分是為一般讀者撰寫的，旨在介紹該行業的主要經濟和市場特徵，並描述精煉的投入和產出。這部分內容對於本版來說大多是全新的，可以獨立閱讀或與其餘文本並行閱讀。在書的後半部分，提供了對煉油廠主要工藝單元的技術回顧，從蒸餾開始，涵蓋每一個主要的轉化和處理過程。這部分內容經過重新組織、更新和改寫，更加強調反應化學和催化在應用中的角色。

石油精煉：技術、經濟與市場是一本為使用者、精煉實務者以及所有希望深入了解該領域的人士所撰寫的書籍。

Mark J. Kaiser is Marathon Professor and Director of the Research and Development Division at the Center for Energy Studies at Louisiana State University,　Baton Rouge, where he has worked since 2001. His research interests cover the oil, gas, and refining industry, cost estimation, economic evaluation, fiscal analysis, infrastructure modeling, and regulatory policy. Dr Kaiser has authored over 200 academic publications and has secured grants of several million dollars over his career. He is the author of four research monographs: Offshore Wind Installation and Decommissioning Cost Modeling (Springer-Verlag 2012), The Offshore Drilling Industry and Rig Construction in the United States (Springer-Verlag 2013), Offshore Service Industry and Logistics Modeling in the Gulf of Mexico (Springer-Verlag 2015), and Decommissioning Forecasting and Operating Cost Estimation (Elsevier 2019). He has also developed several commercial reports on offshore decommissioning, and serves on the editorial boards of over two dozen academic journals, his favorites being Energy, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, and Petroleum Science and Technology. Dr. Kaiser occasionally consults and serves as technical expert to government agencies and private firms, and in the first part of his career worked in the fields of convex geometry, geometric optimization, and computational metrology. Dr.　Kaiser received a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering in 1991 from Purdue University.

Arno de Klerk is the Nexen Professor of Catalytic Reaction Engineering, and the NSERC/Nexen-CNOOC Ltd Industrial Research Chair in Field Upgrading and Asphaltenes Processing at the University of Alberta, Canada. He grew up in South Africa, where he spent part of his early career as a forensic analyst, and from 1995 to 2008 worked as a process engineer in the Research and Development Center of Sasol in refinery conversion processes and catalysis. His refining work focused mainly on transportation fuel and petrochemical production starting from synthetic oil from Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and oil from coal pyrolysis. It led to the monographs Catalysis in the Refining of Fischer-Tropsch Syncrude (Royal Society of Chemistry 2010) with Edward Furimsky, and Fischer-Tropsch Refining (Wiley-VCH 2011). In 2009, he took up a position in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta working on the conversion of heavy oils and oil sands bitumen, and remaining active in the fields of synthetic fuel production and refining. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Petrochemical Research (Springer). He holds degrees in analytical chemistry and in chemical engineering from the University of Pretoria, and is a registered professional engineer in Alberta.

James H. Gary was born in 1918 and lived 93 years. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1942, served in the army in New Guinea during World War II, married in 1945 upon his return to the states, and obtained a Master of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he learned to like teaching as a teaching assistant. He took a job with Standard Oil of Ohio in Cleveland so he could study for his doctorate at night, and completed his PhD at University of Florida before returning to Standard Oil of Ohio for two years. Jim was an Assistant Professor at University of Virginia from 1952-1956, and an Associate Professor at University of Alabama from 1956-1960. In 1960, Dr. Gary came to the Colorado School of Mines as Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining, a position he held until 1972. In 1972, Dr. Gary served as Vice President for Academic Affairs, and in 1979 returned to the department and taught until his retirement in 1986. Jim was principal investigator for research projects on nitrogen and sulfur removal from liquid hydrocarbons and processing of heavy oils, and also organized the Colorado School of Mines Annual Oil Shale Symposium. Gary wrote several dozen publications in technical journals and held many patents in fuels and fuels processing. Jim consulted for refining companies and regularly taught a popular short course on petroleum refining. Jim was an inspiration to his many students and colleagues over the years.

Glenn E. Handwerk graduated from Lehigh University in 1948 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. His first job was with Gulf Oil working in gas processing plants in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Hobbs, New Mexico. After four years he went on to a position with Blawknox in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then to Stearns-Rogers in Denver, Colorado, working in process design. He worked on numerous gas plants and refineries in both Canada and the U.S., and became Chief Process Engineer for Stearns by the mid-1960s. In 1967, Glenn left Stearns-Rogers to become a consultant in gas processing and refining, and became widely known and respected in the industry. He had many clients over the years, including Dome Petroleum, Colorado Interstate Gas, Pacific Petroleum and Western Gas Resources. Glenn was an active member of the Gas Producers Association and organized the Annual Gas Conditioning Conference. Glenn taught short courses at the Colorado School of Mines and he continued his work until he was almost 80.

馬克·J·凱瑟是路易斯安那州立大學巴吞魯日能源研究中心的馬拉松教授及研究與發展部門主任，自2001年以來一直在此工作。他的研究興趣涵蓋石油、天然氣及煉油產業、成本估算、經濟評估、財務分析、基礎設施建模及監管政策。凱瑟博士已發表超過200篇學術出版物，並在其職業生涯中獲得數百萬美元的研究經費。他是四本研究專著的作者：離岸風電安裝與退役成本建模（Springer-Verlag 2012）、美國的離岸鑽探產業與鑽井建設（Springer-Verlag 2013）、墨西哥灣的離岸服務產業與物流建模（Springer-Verlag 2015）及退役預測與運營成本估算（Elsevier 2019）。他還開發了幾份關於離岸退役的商業報告，並擔任超過二十本學術期刊的編輯委員會成員，其中他最喜愛的期刊包括能源、石油科學與工程期刊及石油科學與技術。凱瑟博士偶爾擔任顧問，並作為技術專家為政府機構和私營公司提供服務，在職業生涯的早期，他曾在凸幾何、幾何優化及計算計量學領域工作。凱瑟博士於1991年在普渡大學獲得工業工程博士學位。

阿諾·德·克勒克是加拿大阿爾伯塔大學的Nexen催化反應工程教授及NSERC/Nexen-CNOOC有限公司的現場升級與瀝青處理工業研究主席。他在南非長大，早期職業生涯的一部分擔任法醫分析師，並於1995年至2008年在Sasol的研究與發展中心擔任過程工程師，專注於煉油轉換過程及催化。他的煉油工作主要集中在運輸燃料及石化產品的生產，從Fischer-Tropsch合成的合成油及煤熱解的油開始。這導致了與Edward Furimsky合著的專著Fischer-Tropsch合成油的催化（皇家化學學會 2010）及Fischer-Tropsch煉油（Wiley-VCH 2011）。2009年，他在阿爾伯塔大學的化學與材料工程系任職，專注於重油及油砂瀝青的轉換，並在合成燃料生產及煉油領域保持活躍。他是期刊應用石油化學研究（Springer）的主編。他擁有普雷托里亞大學的分析化學及化學工程學位，並在阿爾伯塔省註冊為專業工程師。

詹姆斯·H·蓋瑞於1918年出生，活了93年。他於1942年畢業於維吉尼亞理工學院，二戰期間在新幾內亞服役，1945年回國後結婚，並在維吉尼亞理工學院獲得碩士學位，期間作為教學助理培養了對教學的興趣。他在俄亥俄州克里夫蘭的標準石油公司工作，以便晚上攻讀博士學位，並在佛羅里達大學完成博士學位後，回到俄亥俄州的標準石油公司工作兩年。吉姆於1952年至1956年擔任維吉尼亞大學的助理教授，1956年至1960年擔任阿拉巴馬大學的副教授。1960年，蓋瑞博士來到科羅拉多礦業學院，擔任化學工程及石油煉製系的教授及系主任，直到1972年。1972年，蓋瑞博士擔任學術事務副校長，並於1979年回到系上教學，直到1986年退休。吉姆是液態碳氫化合物中氮和硫去除及重油處理研究項目的主要研究者，並組織了科羅拉多礦業學院的年度油頁岩研討會。蓋瑞在技術期刊上發表了數十篇文章，並擁有多項燃料及燃料處理的專利。吉姆為煉油公司提供顧問服務，並定期教授受歡迎的石油煉製短期課程。吉姆多年來一直是許多學生和同事的靈感來源。

格倫·E·漢德維克於1948年從萊哈大學畢業，獲得化學工程學位。他的第一份工作是在俄克拉荷馬州塔爾薩和新墨西哥州霍布斯的Gulf Oil公司，從事天然氣處理廠的工作。四年後，他轉到賓夕法尼亞州匹茲堡的Blawknox，然後到科羅拉多州丹佛的Stearns-Rogers，從事過程設計。他在加拿大和美國的多個天然氣廠和煉油廠工作，並在1960年代中期成為Stearns的首席過程工程師。1967年，格倫離開Stearns-Rogers，成為天然氣處理和煉油的顧問，並在業界廣為人知和受人尊敬。他多年來有許多客戶，包括Dome Petroleum、Colorado Interstate Gas、Pacific Petroleum和Western Gas Resources。格倫是天然氣生產者協會的活躍成員，並組織了年度天然氣處理會議。格倫在科羅拉多礦業學院教授短期課程，並持續工作直到接近80歲。