Cote d’Ivoire the oil refining process fractional distillation

Development of the Petroleum Refining in the

  • Cote d’Ivoire the oil refining process fractional distillation
  • Cote d’Ivoire the oil refining process fractional distillation
  • Cote d’Ivoire the oil refining process fractional distillation
  • Cote d’Ivoire the oil refining process fractional distillation

Development of the Petroleum Refining in the Republic

From Crude Oil How Oil Refining Works HowStuffWorks

Petroleum Distillation SpringerLink

Fractional distillation Resource RSC Education

  • What is fractional distillation in oil refining?
  • Fractional distillation is useful for separating a mixture of substances with narrow differences in boiling points, and is the most important step in the refining process. The oil refining process starts with a fractional distillation column. On the right, you can see several chemical processors that are described in the next section.
  • Why is fractional distillation important in crude oil?
  • The different hydrocarbons in crude oil must be separated in order to be useful. Fractional distillation separates crude oil into – groups of hydrocarbon molecules with similar carbon chain lengths, properties and boiling points. Each fraction has a different use. Did you know ...?
  • How does fractional distillation work?
  • The process of fractional distillation is fairly simple, but is powerful in the way that it separates all the different, complex components of crude oil. First, the crude oil is heated to vapourize it and is fed into the bottom of a distillation tower. The resulting vapour then rises through the vertical column.
  • What components come out of a fractional distillation column?
  • Very few of the components come out of the fractional distillation column ready for market. Many of them must be chemically processed to make other fractions. For example, only 40% of distilled crude oil is gasoline; however, gasoline is one of the major products made by oil companies.

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