Fossil Fuels - Synthetic Petroleum and Synthetic Gas

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In countries, where coal is easily available as compared to the rapidly depleting petroleum and natural gas, it is possible to avert the energy crisis by preparing petroleum and natural gas artificially.

Synthetic petroleum

Preparation can be represented as follows:

Synthetic petroleum is also a mixture of several alkanes. It is fractionally distilled to obtain petrol, diesel etc.

Heavy oil, a fraction of petroleum that is inexpensive is the solvent used.

Synthetic natural gas

Preparation can be represented as follows:



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