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
crude oil. (i) Identify fraction A. (ii) What property of the fractions allows them to be separated in the column? (2) (b) A gas oil fraction from the distillation of crude oil contains hydrocarbons in the C15 to C19 range. These hydrocarbons can be cracked by strong heating. (i) Write the molecular formula for the alkane with 19 carbon atoms. (ii) Name the type of reaction involved in cracking. (iii) Write an equation for one possible cracking reaction of the alkane C16H34 when the products
contents of the tank in a rare case that the tank was ruptured. When the refinery is ready to turn the crude oil into useful substances such as gasoline, diesel fuel and other products. It goes through several basic steps, which are distilling, cracking, treating, reforming and blending. The crude oil is pumped through pipes into a hot furnace; this first step is the distilling process (involves several columns or towers which, most of us believe to be smoke stacks) that separates light hydrocarbons
The primary compound steel contained chromium and was protected in 1865 by American metallurgist Julius Baur and produced by the Chrome Steel Co. of Brooklyn, N.Y. This amalgam steel was never fruitful, yet the reputation provoked an enthusiasm for chromium combination steels by French metallurgist Henri-Ami Brustlein. He soon discovered that to composite chromium with steel, the chromium mineral should have been refined to create an expert amalgam of iron-chromium-carbon. This expert amalgam would
6 Mr. Schut 03-18-2016 Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen fuel is one of two important elements found in water h2o. Hydrogen fuel also is currently being researched as a alternate fuel so were using less oil products. It is created from fossil fuels but can also be obtained from wind, solar, and nuclear power. As fetched as this seems hydrogen fuel may be the best viable option in the near future. Hydrogen nuclear plants are going to be a clean hydrogen fuel source. Also hydrogen fuel has been imagined
way as it is oxidized into CO2. CO is an intermediate product of combustion processes and is also produced by some refinery processes. CO emission sources in refinery include power generation, process heaters, flares, catalytic cracking, vaccum distillation, thermal cracking and blowdown systems. 2.1.4. Sulphur compounds (SO2 and SO3) They can both be