(1) Petroleum Refining (2) Petrol and Petroleum Spirits A Description of their Sources, Preparation, Examination, and Uses

Abstract

THE petroleum industry has developed enormously during the last few years, and processes of production and manufacture of products have so changed from the old “rule-of-thumb”methods which were in vogue in the early days that it is only natural for the literature on the subject to have increased in proportion. In the mass of literature in the English language which has been published on petroleum there has hitherto been no publication on petroleum refining, or one solely confined to petrol and petroleum spirits, both of which are of particular interest at the present time, when we are emerging from the throes of a world-war in which petroleum and its products have played such a prominent part.

(1) Petroleum Refining.

By Andrew Campbell. With a Foreword by Sir Boverton Redwood, Bart. Pp. xvi + 297. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price 25s. net.

(2) Petrol and Petroleum Spirits. A Description of their Sources, Preparation, Examination, and Uses.

By Capt. W. E. Guttentag. With a Preface by Sir John Cadman. Pp. xi + 135. (London: Edward Arnold, 1918.) Price 10s. 6d. net.