petroleum refining
Oil into fuel
Petroleum refining is the industrial process of converting crude oil into usable products—gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, lubricants, and petrochemical feedstocks.
Refineries use distillation to separate crude oil into fractions based on boiling point, then further process these through cracking, reforming, and treatment to meet specifications.
The refinery processes 200,000 barrels a day.
- dieselCompression-ignition fuel
- octane ratingFuel's anti-knock measurement
- gasolineRefined petroleum vehicle fuel
- desulfurizationRemoving sulfur from substances
- hydrocarbonsCarbon-hydrogen organic compounds
reforming · heat · furnace · coking · catalysts · naphtha · distillation · alkanes · alkylation · crude oil · isomerization · oil · lubricant · tanker · gas station · carbon footprint reduction · benzene · pipeline
material transformation direction
petroleum refiningchemical synthesis
Creating substances through reactions