Crude Oil
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- Created on: 10-06-21 16:29
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- Crude oil
- Fractional Distillation
- Fractional Distillation is separating fractions with different boiling points,
- How?
- Crude oil gets vaporized (heated), and it goes into a column. The column gets hotter at the bottom. As crude oil has different fractions they have different boiling points so they separate.
- The gases then cool down - as each one cools down they condense to a liquid and are collected in a tray
- Large chain hydrocarbons are collected at the bottom as thick black liquids such as bitumen.
- Short chain hydrocarbons have low boiling points and are collected towards the top of the column.
- The gases then cool down - as each one cools down they condense to a liquid and are collected in a tray
- Crude oil gets vaporized (heated), and it goes into a column. The column gets hotter at the bottom. As crude oil has different fractions they have different boiling points so they separate.
- How?
- Fractional Distillation is separating fractions with different boiling points,
- Extracting Crude oil from oil sands
- Advantages
- Big supply - second largest oil field in the world
- Keeps oil prices low
- Disadvantage
- Water Pollution
- GHG Emission
- Advantages
- Fractional Distillation
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