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The longest hydrocarbons have very high boiling points. They leave the column as a hot liquid called bitumen. Shorter hydrocarbon molecules have weaker intermolecular forces and lower boiling ...

In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using ...

In the case of the former, the process is called fractional distillation, and it's an invaluable way of making crude oil into a far more efficient source of fuel. Efficiency isn't the only concern ...

The petroleum industry relies on fractional distillation of raw materials to separate out products such as petrol, diesel oil and paraffin from crude oil, and methane, ethane and propane ...

Crude oil is a complex mixture of tens of thousands of organic hydrocarbon molecules, Separating them requires energy-intensive thermal distillation processes that consume about 1% of global energy.

Gasoline is made when crude oil is broken into various petroleum products through a process of fractional distillation. Since gas is essential to running most internal combustion engine cars ...

According to the analysts, the U.S. imported ~ 6.6 million barrels per day (mb/d) of crude oil in the first 10 months ... that require feed from vacuum distillation of the heavy residual obtained ...