fractional distillation of petroleum gas

It is the most important of the fossil fuels. Petroleum occurs under the Earth's crust. It is believed to have formed due to the bacterial action of decomposition on marine animals and prehistoric forests inside the Earth, under conditions of high temperature and pressure. Petroleu..

Separation of petroleum into simpler fractions after the removal of unwanted material..

Distillation is used for separating the constituents of a liquid mixture, which differ in their boiling points. Depending upon the difference in the boiling points of the constituents, different types of distillation like fractional distillation, steam ..

Crude oil or petroleum pumped out of an oil well, is a viscous and complex mixture of several hydrocarbons and small amounts of other compounds. It is not useful in this state. The 'refining of (crude) petroleum' involves the process of fractional distillation..

Petroleum is brought to the surface by drilling a hole in the Earth's crust and sinking pipes deep down through the impervious cap rock. Natural gas first comes out under high pressure. Then, petroleum is pumped out, collected in tanks and transported, for further pro..

It is used for separating two liquids in any mixture, which have boiling points within a narrow range of temperatures. In such cases, simple distillation does not give complete separation and a modified version called fractional distillation is employe..

Petroleum gas a by-product from two sources: natural gas processing and crude oil refining is a mixture of butane, propane and ethane. The main constituent of liquefied petroleum gas is, however, propane, propylene, butane, butylene in various mixt..

Composition of LPG - Butane with small quantities of ethane and propane. These gases can be liquified under pressure and bottled in cylinders. By itself LPG is odourless. On leakage, it is toxic if inhaled. It also forms an explosive mixture with air. LPG can be hazardous if handled carelessly. A s..

Natural Gas - It is a mixture of gaseous hydro-carbons. It is found usually along with petroleum deposits. Natural gas consists mainly of 85% methane, 10% of ethane and 3% of propane and butane. It may also contain nitrogen, oxygen, carbon di-oxide and hydrogen sulphid..

The outgoing hot vapors from the main iron still preheat coal tar obtained from the destructive distillation of coal, in a pre-heater. In this process, coal tar loses most of the water it contains, along with some low boiling hydrocarbons. It is then sent to the main iron still (a side r..