Fuel Field Manual: Sources and Solutions to Performance Problems

Here is all you need to solve practically every fuel problem you might face in the field! Concise, comprehensive, and compact, this manual covers the entire range of fuel performance problems encountered during testing, storage, transportation, delivery, and combustion. Using a hands-on, practical approach and actual field examples to demonstrate concepts, leading petroleum industry expert Kim B. Peyton takes you step-by-step through: effective troubleshooting tactics; test methods and test results; the most common sources of fuel problems; chemical additive problems;safety and hazard management; In addtion, a unique roundup chapter draws together hard-to-find information on chemical storage tanks, fuel filters, flowmeters, metals, plastics, and more. Long-needed by professionals in every area of the petroleum industryÑfrom refinery engineers to research chemists to technical service personnel and terminal managersÑthe Fuel Field Manual quickly takes you from problem to resolution, saving you time and money.