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Crude oil as a source of organic chemicals.
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Hydrocarbon Fuels Project Crude oil as a source of organic chemicals. Crude oil accounts for much of the wealth of the industrialised world. Crude oil exploitation has led to fuels for heating, generating electricity and powering motor vehicles. As well as used for fuel, products of crude oil are processed into petrochemicals for use in industry. In the UK the chemical industry provides jobs for 250,000 people. This means that the UK is very dependent upon crude oil and its products. Crude oil is made up of many types of hydrocarbons. There are three main types of hydrocarbon. These are arenes, cycloalkenes and alkanes. To separate the hydrocarbons in crude oil we use a process called fractional distillation. This process involves heating the crude oil in a fractional distillation column. At different temperatures different fractions evaporate off and then they cool at different levels of the column. Now each fraction contains a...
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