Fuel

• Formation of Crude Oil and natural gas

  Formed from small marine organisms that have been decaying deep underground for billions of years.
• Crude oil Refined products

  Crude oil is a mixture of different hydrocarbons, fractional distillation is used to seperate them based upon boiling point.
• Natural gas


  Primarily methane with small amounts of propane and ethane.
• LPG


  Liquid Petroleum Gas, Primarily propane and butane which are liquids under high pressure.
• Biofuels 


  Made from plant material such as grain, sugar cane and vegetable oil and waste.
• Common Bio-fuels

  Biogas, Biodiesel, Bioethanol
• Bioethanol


  Natural process where enzymes in yeast convert glucose into ethanol and CO2.
• Biogas 


  Released in breakdown of organic waste by anaerobic bacteria, produce primarily methane
• Biodiesel


  Produced in a reaction between vegetable oil or animal fat and a small alcohol molecule such as methanol.