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    This document provides an introduction and questions for a webquest on the process of oil refining. It directs the reader to various pages on the HowStuffWorks website to learn about different steps in the refining process. These include separating crude oil into components through fractional distillation and other chemical processes like cracking, treating fractions, and blending products. The goal is to understand what crude oil is, how refineries process it into useful products like gasoline, and some of the specific techniques involved.

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    This document provides an introduction and questions for a webquest on the process of oil refining. It directs the reader to various pages on the HowStuffWorks website to learn about different steps in the refining process. These include separating crude oil into components through fractional distillation and other chemical processes like cracking, treating fractions, and blending products. The goal is to understand what crude oil is, how refineries process it into useful products like gasoline, and some of the specific techniques involved.

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    This document provides an introduction and questions for a webquest on the process of oil refining. It directs the reader to various pages on the HowStuffWorks website to learn about different steps in the refining process. These include separating crude oil into components through fractional distillation and other chemical processes like cracking, treating fractions, and blending products. The goal is to understand what crude oil is, how refineries process it into useful products like gasoline, and some of the specific techniques involved.

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    Crude oil undergoes fractional distillation and other chemical processes to separate it into useful fractions like gasoline and diesel. It is also cracked and blended to produce more gasoline.

    Crude oil is heated and separated via fractional distillation into fractions with different boiling points. It then undergoes additional cracking, treating, blending and chemical processes to convert it into final products.

    Products derived from crude oil include gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, asphalt, waxes, lubricating oils, and feedstocks for petrochemicals. Some major petrochemical products include plastics, solvents, and synthetic fibers.

    Oil Refining Webquest

    Write your answers on a separate piece of paper.

    Introduction
    In this webquest you will be looking at the how, what, when, why and where of oil
    refining. The How Stuff Works Website has an abudance of information that you will
    search through. Go to the website, read through the information, and answer these
    questions:
    1. http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining.htm
    2. List at least 4 items that are produced by petroleum.

    Crude Oil
    This section corresponds with page 2, all about Crude Oil.
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining1.htm
    3. What is crude oil?
    4. What are hydrocarbons?
    5. Why are hydrocarbons exciting to chemists?
    1.
    2.
    a.

    From Crude Oil


    Now visit this page.
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining2.htm
    6. What is the problem with crude oil?
    7. What is oil refining all about?
    8. Describe what happened in an oil refinery.

    9. List the 8 products that come from crude oil and their boiling points.

    The Refining Process and Fractional Distillation


    The Refining Process
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining3.htm
    10. What is the most common way to separate petroleum into various components?
    11. Watch the video: Energy Policy: Foreign Oil Sources. Who is the fastest growing user
    of oil?
    Fractional Distillation
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining4.htm
    Step 1: ________ the mixture with ______________ boiling points.
    Step 2: The mixture ______________, forming gases.
    Step 3: The ____________ enters the bottom of a long column filled with ___________
    or ___________.

    What are the holes in the trays for?


    What do the trays help collect?
    Where is it hot in the column? ____ Where is it cold?____

    Step 4: The vapor _____________ in the column


    Step 5: What happens to the vapor as it rises?
    Step 6: (a) when does vapor condense?
    (b) What does condense mean?
    (c) Where do substances with the highest boiling point condense?
    Step 7: What do the trays collect?
    Step 8: What happens to the liquid fractions?
    12. Watch the animated diagram: The crude oil flows into the ________ where it is
    heated until it vaporizes. It is then sent to the _________ _________ where it is heated
    until it vaporizes. The residual is the first to condense with ______carbons. The last to
    condense is _____ with only ___ carbons.

    13. How do oil companies make enough gasoline without continuously distilling large
    amounts of crude oil? (they use chemical processes to turn some of the other fractions
    into gasoline.)

    Chemical Processing, Treating & Blending


    To answer these questions, click here:
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining5.htm
    14. What does cracking do? How about unification? Alteration?
    15. To answer this question, go to this page on treating and blending:
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-refining6.htm
    Why are fractions treated?
    16. What is blending?

    We make many things from oil. More than just gasoline, diesel, and tar. Use Google and
    look up petroleum products. List at least 10.

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