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How do you process oil?

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It is heated through a furnace which is connected to a large tube. The different hydrocarbons in the Crude Oil will condense at different temeratures. The distilling tube is made so that there are different sections for the different temperatures that the crude oil will condense at. It then catches each different hydrocarbon.

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The major processes in refining Crude Oil are listed below. The flow of oil may be returned to previous steps (for example distillation) to improve the capture of desirable fractions:

  • Removing water and sediment from the oil before processing
  • Distillation to remove lighter fractions within given boiling ranges for further processing and heavier fractions for further processing
  • Cat cracking Hydrocracking or Thermal cracking to break heavier molecules into lighter molecules
  • Reforming of light molecules into medium weight molecules
  • Hydrotreating to remove sulfur
  • Reforming to create aromatics
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Crude oil is separated by the length of carbon chain through fractional distillation. The crude is heated up until it vaporizes then allowed to rise through columns. At the point the vapor condenses back into a liquid, it is collected and then further refined with filtration and further distillations.

If the fractional part has carbon chains that are too long, the chains are "cracked" into smaller pieces and those are then separated through fractional distillation.

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in an oil refienery usually found in south East Asia. a process known as formal rebalition is used.

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Oil is taken from the ground by oil pumps.

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What kinds of oils? There are many, and different means of extraction.

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hi this was actually my question but i know that they dig for it but im not sure of the specific type of digging or what they use.

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the process that creates oil is weathering breaks down into sediments

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In an oil refinery.

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