110 likes | 309 Views
How/What do Oil Refineries work?. Farzan, Mehdi, Ahmed. What is an Oil Refinery. A Oil Refinery is an industrial plant. Where crude oil is transformed or converted to gas/gasoline. Where They Can Be Found. Usually Oil Refineries are found on the coastline
E N D
How/What do Oil Refineries work? Farzan, Mehdi, Ahmed
What is an Oil Refinery • A Oil Refinery is an industrial plant. • Where crude oil is transformed or converted to gas/gasoline.
Where They Can Be Found. Usually Oil Refineries are found on the coastline Usually next to some kind of water resource Most of the major oil refineries are found in the Middle East There are some in North America But they are trying to stop the creation of some of the oil refineries in Canada and Alaska because of the animals and nature
Process Of Achieving Crude Oil • First Oil rigs or pumps gather the crude oil from the Earths crust. • Then the Crude oil is packaged and sent to the Oil Refineries. • Then at the Oil Refinery the Crude oil is burned or heated to create the new gases.
What is Crude oil? • Crude oil • Its mixture of different hydrocarbon Molecules. • Hydrogen and carbon, some of the molecules are very small , just a few atoms join together and its useful.
The Resources Created By Crude Oil Resources: • Gas • Naptha • Gasoline • Kerosene • Gas oil or Diesel • Lubricating Oil • Heavy gas oil • Residual • Also found in some plastics and metals