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Why is it possible to separate the hydrocarbons in crude oil into fractions by distillation?
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Different materials boil at different temperatures (generally and very roughly speaking, for similar molecules the lighter they are the lower the temperature at which they boil). By raising the temperature enough to boil the lighter components of a mixture but not enough to boil the heavier ones, the mixture can be separated into two "fractions", one of which is rich in lighter molecules and one which is rich in the heavier molecules.
In practice, this is generally done in "fractionating columns", where the temperature gradually decreases as you go up the column. The very lightest molecules will make it all the way to the top; slightly heavier ones will condense back into liquid a little further down, and so on. By taking out the liquid at different heights, you can separate the crude oil into many different fractions with different properties (petroleum ether, gasoline, kerosene, paraffins, etc.).
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What mixture separated by fractional distillation?
fractional distillation is used in oil refineries to separate crude oil into useful substances (or fractions) having different hydrocarbons of different boiling points.
What is used to separate different fractions in crude oil?
Typically they are separated in a fractional distillation tower.
Could you separate alcohol and water by evaporation?
The separation is possible by distillation.
What is a separation method that allows all liquid fractions of a mixture to be separate from each other and collected in different containers?
Fractional distillation.
What is the main purpose of petroleum refining?
The various hydrocarbons present in petroleum have different boiling points. as the number of carbon atoms in a hydrogen increases,it's boiling point also increases.This property is used to separate the different components of petroleum by fractional distillation.The components with different boiling points are known as fractions, and the process of separating the fractions by fractional distillation is known as refining.
What process is used to separate the hydrocarbons in crude oil?
Fractional Distillation
Fractional distillation is used to separate hydrocarbons The process is based on?
boiling points
What mixture separated by fractional distillation?
fractional distillation is used in oil refineries to separate crude oil into useful substances (or fractions) having different hydrocarbons of different boiling points.
How does naphtha separate from the other fractions of crude oil?
fractional distillation
Why is distillation is a good way to separate hydrocarbons?
Because they evaporate at different rates, each has a different boiling point.
What is used to separate different fractions in crude oil?
Typically they are separated in a fractional distillation tower.
What are the main differences in a distallation columns fractions?
The main differences in distillation columns fractions are the separation of a mixture. It is component parts or factions that separate chemical compounds.
Explain why distillation is a good way to separate C8H18 and C5H12 liquids?
both of these are liquid hydrocarbons so have the same chemical properties therefore can not beseparated by chemical means by physical means their separation is not possible by filtration because both are miscible so only method to separate them is fractional distillation because they have different boiling points.
How does fractional distillation separate Crude oil into fractions?
First of all you have to bend down and suck it :). I Hope It Helped. TROLL.
Could you separate alcohol and water by evaporation?
The separation is possible by distillation.
What is a separation method that allows all liquid fractions of a mixture to be separate from each other and collected in different containers?
Fractional distillation.
What is main purpose of petroleum refining?
The various hydrocarbons present in petroleum have different boiling points. as the number of carbon atoms in a hydrogen increases,it's boiling point also increases.This property is used to separate the different components of petroleum by fractional distillation.The components with different boiling points are known as fractions, and the process of separating the fractions by fractional distillation is known as refining.
