How can fuel oil be changed into gasoline?

Answer 1

Oil is refined into gasoline through the process of fractional distillation in which Crude oil is heated and then cooled at different levels to seperate its components. Gasoline cools at 70C. In addition, some chemical processes also yield gasoline out of other crude oil collections.

Answer 2

Oil refining is a process to separate crude oil into its different components, or fractions. The process starts with crude oil being turned into a vapor and sent into a tower called a fractionation tower. The crude oil vapor is sent into this tower, and cools as it rises. Each part of it (i.e. asphalt, kerosene, diesel) has a different boiling point, and condenses on trays. A significant portion of a refineries output is in automotive fuels. As a consequence heavier streams are broken into smaller gasoline sized molecules (cracked) and lighter product streams are joined together into heavier gasoline sized molecules (reformed)

Answer 3

Crude oil is converted to gasoline through a relatively simple refining process. The transformation of oil to gasoline begins with its extraction from the ground, after which it is usually loaded into large container ships that deliver the crude oil to refineries all over the world. As any viewer of news footage has seen, crude oil emerges as a thick black substance, which does not resemble the clear and free-flowing gasoline used in motor vehicles.

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Fuel oil cannot be turned into gasoline, they are two different products.

Crude oil is heated (cracked) at the refinery, and using a distillation tower various fluids are drawn off at different temperatures, and cooled. Gasoline, kerosene, and various other mineral spirits and oils are drawn off (refined ) at different temperatures, lighter materials at lower temperatures. The residual oil after the aromatics are drawn off is bunkerC or #6 residual fuel oil. solids are separated from this and added to bitumen for asphalt production.

Answer 4

Fuel oil is a heavier oil product with longer carbon chains compared to gasoline. To convert fuel oil into gasoline, a process called catalytic cracking is typically used, which breaks down the longer hydrocarbon chains in the fuel oil into shorter chains found in gasoline. This process involves exposing the fuel oil to high temperatures and a catalyst in order to achieve the desired chemical reactions.