Thursday, January 7, 2010

What are the products of fractional distillation in crude oil?

Any sort of oil product...Gasoline, Jet fuel, Axle Grease, Kerosene, Asphalt...ect. The basic idea is simple, you take this crude oil out of the ground (It used to be swamps and such 120 Million years ago) and then heat it up without oxygen. As you let the temperature come down, specific oil based products condense out. The graphic on the accompanying page shows crude oil being heated and added to the column. As the ';boiled'; gaseous crude oil travels up the column, the temperature decreases, so different products condense out and are pumped away. (same idea as water condensing on your mirror after a shower---the water was hot, then it touched a cooler mirror and turned back into a liquid)What are the products of fractional distillation in crude oil?
All kind of alkanes and alkynes. In general carbonhydrogene compounds.What are the products of fractional distillation in crude oil?
gasoline, napthaline, asphalt, kerosene, vaseline and pure oil

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