Alright now that we drilled up some oil from the ground below it goes into our cars and trucks right? Not quite yet now that we have gone over the different ways the oil enterprise retrieves its oil via; land based rotary pumps /offshore rigs. What happens to the oil then? What happens to the oil then is it will be transported by way of pipelines/barrels to the closest refinery in the region. Once the crude (term for unrefined oil) arrives the oil will be treated and turned into a usable source of fuel. When referring to oil refining not much is wasted of the precious commodity, we as the consumers use just about every part of the breakdown of oil from tar to jet fuel to propane.
The process of refining the oil is a complex method starting with distillation which generally means the breakdown of components by use of a furnace. From there it is sent to a number of steel towers depending on the refinery, these towers put simply are composed of different levels of temperature where certain components as they cool will be deposited on these levels making up the different types of fuel as described by the diagram below. There are many different types of variants that we use in every day needs such as the lubricants, waxes, fuel oil to heat our homes. Then we have the most commonly referred types being that of vehicle gases such as diesel, kerosene, gasoline, and finally the gas we use to have that motivating BBQ which is propane.
The process of refining the oil is a complex method starting with distillation which generally means the breakdown of components by use of a furnace. From there it is sent to a number of steel towers depending on the refinery, these towers put simply are composed of different levels of temperature where certain components as they cool will be deposited on these levels making up the different types of fuel as described by the diagram below. There are many different types of variants that we use in every day needs such as the lubricants, waxes, fuel oil to heat our homes. Then we have the most commonly referred types being that of vehicle gases such as diesel, kerosene, gasoline, and finally the gas we use to have that motivating BBQ which is propane.
2 comments:
Craig,
You have some fabulous details here. I am certainly learning a lot from your blog! (On a side note, I'm thinking of turning my Jetta TDI into a vegetable-oil running maching. More on that later.)
A suggestion: watch those big, busy sentences. Think about using some additional punctuation to separate those ideas out, like commas, or even breaking the sentences up. Make sure your readers get the right amount of "pause" throughout.
That is an intresting process, and that diagram, is very helpful. I don't think I would have understood your blog as well, with out it.
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