fuel cells, like what is in a TV remote or a car. Also chemistry has helped improve gasoline for automobiles and other necessities for everyday use. This includes gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, and diesel. A hydrogen fuel cell is what converts chemical stored energy by hydrogen fuel into electricity. Hydrogen fuel is very similar to normal batteries like what we would find in a car or a clock, but differences are present between the two. Like a battery, the fuel cells using hydrogen and oxygen are
The first form of decomposition is thermal cracking, which can be broken up into the sub categories of visbreaking, steam cracking, and coking. Visbreaking is a process of thermal cracking which involves heating heavy crude oil residue to break down the hydrocarbons into more useful middle distillates, heating oil, and diesel. A mix of the residue is pumped into a furnace where it is heated to a desirable temperature; this temperature depends on what products are desired. When this temperature is
Have you ever wondered what chemical compounds are used to produce pipes that transfer water? Or that clothing material that people wear that looks like leather but is not? Well, the synthetic compound that makes up these products is known as PVC. This stands for polyvinyl chloride. It is one of the world’s oldest and most widely produced polymers. It is used in a variety of thing such as pipes, electric cables, construction, clothing and furniture. PVC was accidently discovered in the 19th century
Benzene Chemical Report Duncan Fraser Contents What is benzene Benzene is an organic chemical with the chemical formula of C6 H6. It is a chemical that appears as a colourless liquid or sometimes slight yellow at room temperature. Benzene boils at 176.2 degrees Fahrenheit and freezes below 41.9 degrees Fahrenheit. It has a sweet petrol like odour and is highly flammable. The hydrocarbon is derived from benzoic acid and is therefore named benzene. Michael Faraday an
and digging for fossil fuels is that there is only so much of it, and cannot be created, or reused. Once, these fossil fuels are all used up, they will no longer be a source of energy for the world to use. This is why we have to find ways to preserve what we have left of these fossil fuels. Currently we do not have enough of an alternative source of energy for the world to run efficiently, and that is a scary situation that we have ourselves in. There are three different types of fossil fuels that we
defects in the design, process, quality or part application) by which weld-ability can be measured (TWI, 2005). The three measures are: hydrogen-induced cold cracking, lamellar tearing, and spot-weld peeling (TWI, 2005). Out of the three measures hydrogen-induced cold cracking is the most prominent. The weld-ability of steel, when talking about hydrogen-induced cold cracking, is inversely proportional to the hardenability of steel. This means the higher the hardenability of the metal the lower the weld-ability
and must be heated to be fluid are called "heavy" and are less expensive. Light crude is less expensive to refine and heavy crude is more expensive to refine. The term "sweet" is used to define crude oil that is low in sulfurous compounds such as hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans, which is an organic compound, produced by decaying animals and plant matter and has bonded to a carbon atom. "Sour" crude oil is high in sulfurous compounds. Once extracted from the earth, crude oil must be refined to become
conversion processes which are usually catalytic cracking, thermal cracking, hydro-cracking, isomerization and catalytic reforming. Third class is treating processes which include hydro desulphurization (HDS), hydro-treating, extraction and lube oil manufacture. Fourth class is crude product and handling which includes unloading, storage, blending and loading and the fifth class is auxiliary facilities which include boiler/process heaters, hydrogen production, sulphur recovery and production, cooling
of value added chemicals, but it also contains impurities that must be removed. Carbon dioxide is useful in the chemical reactions utilized to convert hydrocarbons into hydrogen gas (in order to create ammonia), but at 8 mole percent, the concentration of CO2 in our feed will dilute the shale gas and may cause corrosion. Hydrogen sulfide is not only hazardous to health and corrosive to pipelines, but also destroys metal catalysts used in the processes downstream. These impurities can be removed using
Department of Energy, when these ancient living plants and animals died they decomposed and became buried under layers and layers of mud, rock, and sand (2013). Throughout millions of years, they slowly decomposed into organic material. Depending on what combination of animal and plant debris, different types of fossil fuels were formed. Fossil fuels were converted into coal, oil, and natural gas (U.S Department of Energy, 2013). Fossil fuels are considered to be non-renewable energy. Fossil Fuels