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This paper presents a new class of generalized approximate inverse preconditioners \(\widetilde M\approx A^{-1}\) for nonsymmetric matrices \(A\) arising typically from the finite element approximation of convection-diffusion-reaction equations in 2, or 3 spatial dimensions. The technique is based on the prescription of the structure of the LU-factorization in correspondence with the structure of \(A\). Then the preconditioner \(\widetilde M\) results from the inversion of the approximate LU-factorization made, i.e. \(\widetilde M= (\widetilde L\widetilde U)^{-1}\). The numerical experiments presented show that this approach works, at least, for moderate problems. Unfortunately, the author presents only results for small-size problems (not more than 2197 unknowns). Moreover, the convection dominated case that would be of great practical interest was also not considered in the numerical experiments.