Fuels and crude oil

Cards (13)

  • Crude oil is natural and non-renewable, it is a finite resource.
  • Crude oil forms from dead plants and animals over millions of years.
  • Fractional Distillation is how crude oil is seperated.
  • The lower the melting point of the component in crude oil, the higher it condenses in the fractionating column.
  • In order of lowest to highest melting point: 1)Petroleum 2)Naphtha 3)Kerosene 4)Diesel 5)Lubricating Oils 6)Bitumen
  • Bitumen is used to make road surfaces and roofing materials.
  • Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which contributes to global warming.
  • Kerosene is used to power aircraft
  • Naphtha is used as feedstock or raw materials to make chemicals
  • Petroleum is used for
    Fueling cars and cooking oil
  • Diesel is used for

    Big and heavy vehicles or taxis
  • Fractional distillation

    Crude oil is turned to gas then travels up fractionating column until it reaches a column with a lower melting point then drops back down and condenses into the column below.
  • Fractional distillation
    A process for separating a mixture of liquids with different boiling points. The mixture is heated to create a gas, which is then cooled and condensed back into a liquid in a fractionating column. The different components of the mixture condense at different rates, allowing them to be separated into different fractions based on their boiling points.