From basic tenets to the latest advances, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the process of biodesulfurization in the petroleum refining industry.

Petroleum refining and process engineering is constantly changing. No new refineries are being built, but companies all over the world are still expanding or re-purposing huge percentages of their refineries every year, year after year. Rather than building entirely new plants, companies are spending billions of dollars in the research and development of new processes that can save time and money by being more efficient and environmentally safer. Biodesulfurization is one of those processes, and nowhere else it is covered more thoroughly or with more up-to-date research of the new advances than in this new volume from Wiley-Scrivener.

Besides the obvious benefits to biodesulfurization, there are new regulations in place within the industry with which companies will, over the next decade or longer, spend literally tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars to comply. Whether for the veteran engineer needing to update his or her library, the beginning engineer just learning about biodesulfurization, or even the student in a chemical engineering class, this outstanding new volume is a must-have. Especially it covers also the bioupgrading of crude oil and its fractions, biodenitrogenation technology and application of nanotechnology on both biodesulfurization and biodenitrogenation technologies.

Nour Shafik El-Gendy, PhD, is a Professor of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology, vice head for the Department of Process Design & Development and former head manager of the Petroleum Biotechnology Lab at the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI). She is an editor, reviewer, and contributor to many scientific journals, including the Journal of Sustainable Energy Engineering, from Scrivener Publishing. She has numerous awards, papers, and presentations to her credit, including being the author or co-author of several books. She is vice coordinator of the Scientific Research Committee, National Council for Women (NCW) of Egypt and member in the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS). El-Gendy is an expert in the field of environmental pollution, wastewater treatment, biofuel, petroleum upgrading, green chemistry, nanobiotechnology, recycling of wastes and biocorrosion. She has extensive research, teaching, and lecturing experience.

Hussein Mohamed Nabil Nassar, PhD, is a researcher at the Petroleum Biotechnology Laboratory at the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI). He has been the author or co-author of many scholarly papers and has extensive research experience in the field of bioremediation, biofuels, green chemistry, wastewater treatment, petroleum bioupgrading and nanobiotechnology.