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The physical and chemical processes that are used in an oil refinery
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The physical and chemical processes that are used in an oil refinery - BY RICHARD DILLEY Welcome to the Oil Refinery Oil production and refinement is one of the single most important industries in the world today. The crude oil based products we used everyday can include the petrol we use to drive our cars; the kerosene that fuels our planes and the even the roads we drive upon. However, there are many processes that are needed to obtain and develop the parts of the crude oil so that we can use them. Crude oil is made up of hundreds of hydrocarbons, each of which can be a vastly complex arrangement of hydrogen and carbon atoms. Crude oil is in its self, useless, but the solids, gases and liquids dissolved within it are highly valuable and are what first gave crude oil the name "black gold". The vast majority of crude oil...
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