Showing posts with label crude oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crude oil. Show all posts
Saturday, May 28, 2016
5.7 Describe and explain how the industrial process of fractional distillation separates crude oil into fractions
Crude oil is separated into it's various hydrocarbons by fractional distillation, which happens like so:
1. Crude oil is heated
2. As a gas it floats upwards, where the temperature decreases
3. One by one, each compound in the crude oil will reach it's condensing point and condense
4. It will then be collected
This ensures that all groups with similar condensing temperatures (known as fractions) are each separated, since each fraction is a different substance
1. Crude oil is heated
2. As a gas it floats upwards, where the temperature decreases
3. One by one, each compound in the crude oil will reach it's condensing point and condense
4. It will then be collected
This ensures that all groups with similar condensing temperatures (known as fractions) are each separated, since each fraction is a different substance
5.6 Understand that crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons
Basically, crude oil is made up of different hydrocarbons (molecules with ONLY hydrogen and carbon atoms in them)
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