American Petroleum Institute (API)

At the heart of the engineering, design and operation of today’s highly competitive petroleum industry is the American Petroleum Institute (API) Technical Database™ . From offshore platforms to refineries and storage facilities, version 3 of the API Technical Database replaces the wealth of information from the API Tech Data Book developed by the American Petroleum Institute over the past 40 years in a modern, interactive software application with over 130 API standard methods fully documented in PDF format. Additional data from recent research on the phase equilibrium of various sulfur contaminants in gasoline and diesel products has also been included to provide a basis for investigating process options required to help meet new federally mandated regulations. The API Technical Database is critically reviewed and approved by the API Technical Data Committee including the refining industry’s leading experts, giving you consistent and accurate information to get the job done right. Perform rigorous 3-phase flash computations using API standard methods and determine properties of complex mixtures, including inorganic gases, pure hydrocarbons and petroleum fractions. Estimate critical properties, vapor pressure, density, viscosity, enthalpy, heat of vaporization, heat capacity, surface tension, thermal conductivity, etc. for a broad range of pure components, petroleum fractions, and their mixtures.

Subject Coverage:

Characterization of Petroleum Fraction

 API Rigorous 3-Phase Flash Calculations

Mixtures of Pure Components and Petroleum Fraction Pseudocomponents

API Pure Component Property Database

ASTM, TBP, SD Conversions

User Defined Property Data Correlations

Split Petroleum Fractions into Psuedocomponents

Petroleum Fraction Property Prediction

Pure Component Property Prediction

New and Updated Inspection Property Methods

Hydrate Formation Prediction Methods

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