How Does an Oil Refinery Work?
In short: How a refinery separates crude oil by boiling point, cracks heavy fractions into lighter ones, and relies on storage and safety systems to turn one mixture into many products.
A 1:57 short film in the series “How Things Work”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Springer (chapter by Knut Bjørlykke, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, in Petroleum Geoscience, 2015), “Source Rocks and Petroleum Geochemistry”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Petroleum - Formation, Maturation, Kerogen | Britannica”; U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica”; Royal Society of Chemistry (Education in Chemistry / edu.rsc.org), in association with the Nuffield Foundation, “Cracking hydrocarbons in liquid paraffin with a catalyst”; BBC (BBC Bitesize, GCSE Chemistry revision guide, AQA), “Distillation - Mixtures - AQA - GCSE Chemistry (Single Science) Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize”.
Sources used in this film
- Springer (chapter by Knut Bjørlykke, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, in Petroleum Geoscience, 2015) — Source Rocks and Petroleum Geochemistry · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Petroleum - Formation, Maturation, Kerogen | Britannica · View →
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica · View →
- Royal Society of Chemistry (Education in Chemistry / edu.rsc.org), in association with the Nuffield Foundation — Cracking hydrocarbons in liquid paraffin with a catalyst · View →
- BBC (BBC Bitesize, GCSE Chemistry revision guide, AQA) — Distillation - Mixtures - AQA - GCSE Chemistry (Single Science) Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Springer (chapter by Knut Bjørlykke, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, in Petroleum Geoscience, 2015): Source Rocks and Petroleum Geochemistry
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Petroleum - Formation, Maturation, Kerogen | Britannica
- Also: www.eia.gov — Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica
- Also: Royal Society of Chemistry (Education in Chemistry / edu.rsc.org), in association with the Nuffield Foundation: Cracking hydrocarbons in liquid paraffin with a catalyst
- Also: BBC (BBC Bitesize, GCSE Chemistry revision guide, AQA): Distillation - Mixtures - AQA - GCSE Chemistry (Single Science) Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize
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