Science at Work: Fuels from Crude Oil
Crude oil is used to make petrol, diesel, and other products. This short booklet provides a basic description of crude oil and the processes used to transform it into fuel and other petroleum products. Sections include:
What is crude oil?
What is a fuel?
Fractional Distillation and Products
Matching Supply and Demand
Fuels and the Environment
The booklet is aimed at secondary school-level students aged 14-16.
Online Resource details
- Websites: http://bpes.bp.com/secondary-resources/science/ages-14-to-16/chemical-and-material-behaviour/fuels-from-crude-oil/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Edcoms&utm_campaign=4713562_Sept2014_FA_Reg_Others_+Autumn1_BP&utm_content=FuelsFromCrudeOil&dm_i=25VJ,2T10A,HKI4J9,A73YP,1 -
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Subjects:
- Petroleum engineering -
- Oil production -
- Asphalt -
- Chemical Engineering -
- Oil supply -
- Carbon emissions -
- Energy engineering -
- Gas separation plants -
- Chemical feedstocks -
- Petrochemical plants -
- Diesel -
- Distillation -
- Gas works (and other conversion to gases) -
- Ethanol -
- Gas to liquid plants -
- Gas -
- Gas condensate -
- Gasoil -
- Primary energy production -
- Jet A- 1 -
- Jet fuel - military -
- Kerosene-type jet fuel -
- Petrochemicals -
- Oil -
- Petroleum products -
- Liquefied natural gas -
- Liquefied petroleum gas -
