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How many gallons of gasoline come from a 42 gallon barrel of oil?
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∙ 13y ago
By the year 1700, 42-gallon containers already being used for things like salmon, wine, butter, and molasses. In 1872, the Petroleum Producers Association decided 42 gallons should be the standard for a barrel of oil.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 16y agoBarrels come in many sizes. In the old Pennsylvania oil fields oil was commonly stored in old wine barrels which once held one tierce of wine. A tierce is equal to US 42 gallons.
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∙ 15y agoThe 42 gallon barrrel today is just a unit of accounting. See related link for history.
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∙ 13y agoAbout 19.5 gallons of gasoline and about 9.2 gallons of diesel fuel.
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How many grams are in 1 liter of Gasoline octane?
Last week, Slate published the first installment of the "Green Challenge," a program that helps participants reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they put into the atmosphere. We started by asking people to think about the effects their cars have on the environment: "For each gallon of gas your car burns, it releases about 19 pounds of carbon dioxide." Explainer readers wondered about this statistic: If a gallon of gasoline weighs about 6 pounds, how can it produce three times that much greenhouse gas?The carbon from the gasoline mixes with oxygen from the air. Gasoline consists mostly of hydrocarbons-chains of carbon encircled by atoms of hydrogen. When the hydrocarbons burn, they break apart and recombine with the air. This reaction produces heat, as well as two chemical byproducts: water and carbon dioxide.For example, consider a single molecule of octane-a typical hydrocarbon that you'd find in gasoline. Octane consists of eight atoms of carbon and 18 atoms of hydrogen, written as C8H18. If you break down the octane and mix it with enough oxygen (O2), you've got the ingredients-i.e., the atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen-to make eight molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nine molecules of water (H2O). The eight molecules of CO2 weigh about three times more than the one molecule of octane you started with. That doesn't mean you've violated the law of conservation of mass; instead, you've added the weight of the oxygen from the air to the weight of the carbon from the gasoline. (For a more in-depth discussion of this reaction,This reaction gives only a general sense of what happens when you burn a gallon of gas. First, the combustion that occurs in a car engine doesn't work perfectly, which means not every hydrocarbon gets converted into carbon dioxide and water vapor. Sometimes there's not enough oxygen available to complete the reaction, in which case hydrocarbons can be converted into poisonous carbon monoxide (CO). Burning gasoline can also release nitrous oxide and other gases.Second, gasoline consists of octane along with many other kinds of hydrocarbons. You'll also find additives like surfactants, freezing-point depressants, corrosion inhibitors, and dyes. These nonhydrocarbon additives might make up half a percent of the total composition of the gasoline. There are also differences between winter and summer blends, low- and high-octane, and leaded and unleaded.Thus, any estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from a gallon of gas must be based on some assumptions. The Environmental Protection Agency starts with a guess for how many grams of carbon are in each gallon of gas. First, they determine how much carbon is in each particular kind of gasoline, and then they come up with a weighted average based on consumption levels for each variety. Using this method, they estimate that a gallon of gas contains, on average, 2,421 grams of carbon. That's enough to make 8,877 grams of CO2. They multiply that number by 0.99 to account for the carbon that doesn't react fully with the oxygen. Their result: 8,788 grams, or about 19.4 pounds. (The Energy Information Administration gives a slightly higher number-19.564
Gasoline smell in your house where could it come from?
A gas leak from your car. A gas can nearby. Towels or rags recently used to clean up a gas mess. A neighborhood gas station or gas spill.
Can an electric car cause pollution?
Most of them use gasoline as well, which would cause pollution. Even if it is completely electric, that energy had to come from somewhere, Like a power plant that produces pollution to create electricity. If you run on only electric, and get your energy from a windmill or waterwheel then it wouldn't!
Is gasoline and oil the same?
no my friend,they are not. CRUDE OIL- it is a mixture of a variety of compounds containing impurities that was formed from dead organic matter in the ocean over thousands of years of immense pressure and heat below the sea bed.it cannot be used effectively in it's raw form.therefore it undergoes fractional distillation to give a variety of products and substrates such as petrol,diesel,naphta.etc OIL- an oil is generally considered to be a mixture of fat and glyserol.some oils are prepared in other ways while those used in vehicles are extracted fom crude oil and mixed with som other chemicals. however,oil and crude oil are not the same.
Is petrol a mixture or compound?
First, gasoline is not a simple chemical compound like water or ethanol. It is a mixture of hundreds of different compounds. The reason for this is that gasoline is made from crude oil. Crude oil, or petroleum, is made up of thousands of different compounds, and the exact compounds present and their relative amounts differ depending on where the petroleum is produced. (For example, oil produced in West Texas differs remarkably from oil produced in the Middle East.) After the oil is produced (or taken out of the ground via oil wells), it is shipped to an oil refinery, where it is separated into different products, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel, among others. The separation of the oil takes place in a process called distillation. (Note that there are other processes which occur in a refinery as well, but the simplification to consider just distillation is not too far off.) In distillation, the oil is heated until it starts to boil. Some of the thousands of chemical compounds that make up the oil start to boil at low temperatures, and some do not boil until the petroleum has been heated up to higher temperatures. The different products (such as gasoline) that come out of a refinery are defined by their boiling temperatures during distillation. The lightest compounds (those that boil at the lowest temperature) become aviation gasoline, the next lightest become automotive gasoline, the next lightest become lightweight solvents and so on. In order of increasing boiling point, some other categories of refinery products are jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, lubricants, greases, and asphalt. Gasoline is typically made from the fraction of the crude oil that boils at temperatures between about 50 degrees Celsius and 200 degrees Celsius. So, we can't say for sure exactly what compounds are present in gasoline, but we can define gasoline to some extent. First, it is made up almost entirely of hydrocarbons, which are molecules made up of carbon and hydrogen. (Some of the compounds present in gasoline also contain small amounts of other elements, including sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and some trace metals.) Next, those hydrocarbons which make up most of gasoline boil at temperatures between about 50 and 200 degrees Celsius (120 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit). This means that these compounds are mostly those hydrocarbons that have between 6 and 12 carbon atoms in each molecule. A good average is probably octane, which has eight carbon atoms and 18 hydrogen atoms and is written C8H18. The second part of your question is a bit easier. Although gasoline contains many different chemical compounds, it is made up mostly of hydrocarbons, and all hydrocarbons form the same products when they are burned (just in different amounts). When a hydrocarbon is burned (that is, reacted with oxygen), it forms carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). For our "average" gasoline of C8H18, the reaction is 2 molecules of octane reacting with 25 molecules of oxygen (O2) to form 18 molecules of water and 16 molecules of carbon dioxide. Of course, this reaction only occurs completely in an ideal world. In the real world, there is usually not quite enough oxygen available fast enough inside your car's engine to allow the reaction to occur completely, so there is also some carbon monoxide (CO) formed as well. In addition, since the oxygen is provided by bringing air into the engine, and since air consists mostly of nitrogen, some oxides of nitrogen (NOX) are formed as well. Finally, some of the trace elements in the gasoline (such as sulfur) can react to form small amounts of other pollutants, such as SO2. So, to sum up, gasoline is a complicated mixture of hydrocarbons boiling between 120 and 400 degrees F, with chemical formulas between C6H14 and C12H26, but a good "average" compound is C8H18. These react in an ideal situation to produce carbon dioxide and water, but in an actual automobile engine they also produce some amount of undesirable compounds including carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and sulfur containing compounds.
How many gallons of gasoline come from a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil?
About 19.6 gallons of gasoline from each barrel of crude oil.
How many gallon of diesel come from a barrel of oil?
9.2 gallons
How many gallons of gasoline will come from a barrel of crude oil?
On the average 19.5 US gallons. See link.
How much gasoline is produced from one barrel of oil?
One barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil, when refined, yields approximately 19.6 gallons of finished motor gasoline. The remainder of the barrel yields distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, jet fuel, and other products.
How many gallons of gas does a 1986 Toyota 4 Runner hold?
The 1986 Toyota has a gasoline capacity of 16.4 gallons. The low fuel warning light will come on when the gasoline level gets down to 2.5 gallons.
What oil gasoline ratio does a Toro weed eater require?
The ratio is 40:1 which come to 3.2oz of oil per gallon of gasoline.
How come you can you use all of the energy in a gallon of gasoline?
Actually you can't. At least, if you use the gasoline in a car, a large percentage of the energy is wasted.
What percentage of the money spent on gasoline does each of the entites involved in the production of gasoline receive when gas is sold?
There are 42 gallons in a barrel of crude. The price today is around $100 per barrel. That equates to $2.38 per gallon of crude. The percents depends on the state in which you live. The Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. State tax ranges from a low of 8 cents in Alaska to a high of 51.2 in New York. The operator of the gas station and the refinery will make about 50 cents per gallon profit. The selling gas station owner makes around 3 to 5 cents net profit on each gallon sold. In some cases where there is stiff competition they will make nothing. But they want you to come to their store as you may buy other things. Lots of the cost of a gallon is related to refinery costs and transportation costs.
How much gallon in a drum?
The unit weight of sand/soil is 105 lbs/cu ft1-gallon (dry) is equivalent to 0.156 cu ftSo a 55-gallon drum has a capacity of 55*0.156 = 8.58 cu ftSoil unit weight * drum capacity cu ft = 105*8.58 = 900.9 lbs
How much gas does America use daily?
I don't know the real answer, but using basic math I have come up with something that is likely close. America uses 22 Million barrels of oil a day. A barrel contains 42 gallons and produced 44.2 gallons of refined product. 19.5 gallons which is gasoline. So, 22 million times 19.5 = 429,000,000 But, the US also imports gasoline daily because we can not refine enough to meet demand. So, I estimate the answer to be in excess of 430,000,000 gallons a day.
How much does two gallons of concrete weigh?
Nothing. Concrete doesn't come in gallons for measuring. Milk is in gallons.
How many quarts are in 9 18 gallons?
There are four quarts in a gallon. This calculation would come out to 3,672 quarts.
