Major changes in oil-refining technologies have occurred over the last few years; the requirements to petroleum product quality and their environmental properties have been raised. Hydrogenation and thermal catalytic processes have been widely implemented, an oil conversion ratio has been rapidly increased, there have been a significant growth in the field of process automation, and the methods of refinery design have been changed. This textbook fills in the resultant gap. It covers a wide range of problems related to oil refining. A wide range of modern basic processes for petroleum...