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Q: What three steps are used to refine oil?
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How do you use refinery in sentence?

the oil refinery had a great year, lots of oil to refine....... lol i hope this helps :P


How do you separate oil from crude oil?

Crude oil IS oil so you don't separate oil from it. You do refine crude oil, separateing parts of it that are used for a variety of purposes. This is usually done by fractional distillation. You heat the crude oil so that the parts with higher boiling points become vapors, the vapors are taken to condensers at different temperatures so materials with different boiling points are condensed into different channels and moved for furhter processing. Portions that do not convert to vapor have very high boiling points and generally are the larger molecules. These "bottoms" hare broken into lighter chemicals in fractionation columns.


What are three things made from oil?

oil, gas,plastic


How much does it cost to refine coal?

Coal does not get refined. Oil gets refined, but coal gets used as it is when it comes out of the coal mine. There is a process called coal gassification by which natural gas can be made from coal, but that is not really a form of refining, and in any event, most coal is simply burned, it is not gassified.


Why coal is used at the source of production whereas mineral oil is transported over great distances?

Coal is ready to be burned coming right out of the ground. You can build a power plant near the mine and save on the transportation cost, since it's cheaper to transport electricity than bulk coal. Oil has to be refined before it can be used. When the crude oil is refined, it yields multiple products, and each one has to be kept separate from the other products. It's cheaper, therefore, to transport crude oil and refine it near the end user rather than transporting the distillates separately.

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What is a sentence using the word refine?

My teacher asked me to refine the wording in my composition in order to clarify my thesis statement. The processes used to refine oil can create volatile and dangerous chemicals.


What do oil refineries do?

refine and clean oil.


What is crude oil used for in the US?

US has large number of skilled manpower and can easily refine it so.


Where does Shell refine their oil?

thin air


How does oil form explain in three steps?

oil forms by time, decayed plants and animals and the right temperature !


How do you press peanut oil with an oil press?

To press peanut oil, there are several steps you need to follow. 1. de-shell peanuts 2. remove the peel of the peanut kernel 3. clean the peanut kernels to remove impurities 4. ready the oil press for peanut pressing. 5. refine the crude oil(if the oil press has an oil filter system, generally this step will be unnecessary.)


How do oil rigs work?

Oil rigs drill into the ground to find oil. They then pump the oil out of the ground to ready it for delivery to places that will refine it. They can be on land or in the ocean.


How do you use refinery in sentence?

the oil refinery had a great year, lots of oil to refine....... lol i hope this helps :P


Why does it cost more to refine heating oil then gasoline?

because oil is cheaper than gasoline & its heat came longer then gasoline.


How many gallons of gas comes from a barrel of oil?

The oil companies refine about 19.6 gallons of gasoline from each 42-gallon barrel of crude oil.


How do you refine motor lubricant oil?

what you do is you go and get your wife to do it for you or go out and buy a car and tell your wife that you did it


How does Honda Oil do in Honda Accords?

No better or worse than any other major brand oil. Honda does not refine oil, they buy it from a major oil company that puts their name on the can.