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Describe petroleum, its refining process and products give long answer

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Answered by Kaushalsingh74883508
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Explanation:

Petroleum refineries change crude oil into petroleum products for use as fuels for transportation, heating, paving roads, and generating electricity and as feedstocks for making chemicals. Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products.

Answered by Varnika425
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Petroleum, also called crude oil, is a fossil fuel. Like coal and natural gas, petroleum was formed from the remains of ancient marine organisms, such as plants, algae, and bacteria. ... Petroleum reservoirs can be found beneath land or the ocean floor. Their crude oil is extracted with giant drilling machines

Refining process

The first phase in petroleum refining operations is the separation of crude oil into its major constituents using 3 petroleum separation processes: atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, and light ends recovery (gas processing).

Products

  • fuels. Gasoline. Diesel fuel. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) fuel oil. Kerosene.
  • Asphalt (mainly used in asphalt concrete)
  • Paraffin wax.
  • Tar
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