Abstract
IT has been frequently urged that the refining of petroleum constitutes one of the most important branches of chemical engineering, and that Clreat Britain will be at a serious disadvantage so long as this industry is largely non-existent here; Aiiiple evidence for such a claim is afforded by the contents of Prof. Nelson's compilation. He points out that the industry utilizes most of the unit operations of chemical engineering and that the great progress which oil refining is now making technically is due to the adoption of chemical engineering principles.
Petroleum Refinery Engineering
By Prof. W. L. Nelson. (Chemical Engineering Series.) Pp. viii + 647. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1936.) 36s.
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A., E. Petroleum Refinery Engineering. Nature 139, 92–93 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139092a0
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