Fuels and crude oil

• 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.