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I think about this a lot and I'm just convinced I'm dumber than the average human. I mean we've literally gone from being wild animals to building shit like this - and let's not forget building rockets that take us to fucking space
@@tezy0193 They boiled pots of oil in the Middle Ages to pour down on invaders trying to take their castle. Maybe someone said in the year 940, "Hey, just had an idea. We can desalt this oil, determine its PNA class, build a big tower with sieve plates at specific heights to collect the various condensate fractions. Then we can crack the longer hydrocarbon chains so they'll combust better in a standard internal combustion engine!"
At the end, they showed an 8-Carbon string which is technically what "Octane" is, but if you got that into your car, it wouldn't work very well. What they call "high-octane" at the pump is actually a 5-Carbon chain with an extra 3 Carbon units branching off of it. But the total amount of Carbon and Hydrogen atoms is the same: 8 Carbon, and 18 Hydrogen. It's called "Trimethylpentane", which translates to 3 methyls on a 5-Carbon string.
So apparently, the octane rating works in such a way as to compare a fuel's anti-knocking capabilities to that of a mixture of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane and heptane. 100% of the trimethylpentane is the highest octane rating while 100% heptane is the lowest octane rating, and a mixture of them is in between. That is because trimethylpentane is very resistant to knocking and heptane is not resistant to knocking, and a mixture of them makes for a good comparison scale to other fuels, even when those fuels have a different make-up of chemicals, because the knocking resistance can be compared regardless of what specific substance it is. Did I get that right, guys?
@@meltingzero3853 Mostly all correct. One important note is that the "octane-rating" can be higher than 100, because the phrase "octane-rating" has become synonymous with "resistant-to-premature-detonation" - AKA, "knocking". The whole situation arose because the IUPAC naming convention, so the author of the video got it right: that squiggly line is definitely "octane" in an Organic Chemistry class according to IUPAC nomenclature. But out in the real world, that same Octane can be heated under pressure and it will re-arrange itself to the "tri-methyl-pentane" that the gasoline industry uses. Most race-fuels have an "Octane rating" higher than 100, which in a lab makes no sense, because you can't have more than 100% of anything in a beaker, but again, it's just because over time the term "octane-rating" has come to mean "resistance to knocking", and there are fuel compositions that are more resistant to knocking than 100% Octane.
i’m a new geologist, taking an online course on Oil and Gas. i must say i didn’t understand much of what the teacher was saying till i searched up this. helped me big time. thanks🥰
a lot of refineries are limiting flaring now. Flares are mainly there for safety now incase a reaction is uncontrollable or some unexpected buildup occurs
1991 Mobile regular gas worked great in my rc engine. Shell brand regular was a close second. I noticed the 1991 winter blend was the best from mobile and shell. I hear in the early 2000’s they made the gas less volatile. Anybody know the 91 Mobile winter regular gas method? I know the winter blend then was oxygenated to make more volatile.
The reason i watch this is purely because i want to know what my neighbours deal everyday at work. I live in a community nearby the biggest oil dan gas port in malaysia.
Ukraine/Russian war got me watching this at midnight. I'm going to start drilling in my backyard tomorrow.. hopefully I find some good stuff for this V8 sitting in my garage
Good idea go ahead,, use separate refinery for sewage waste subjected to fractional distillation using electrical heating in the absence of oxygen, finally getting fertilizers, pesticides,
I work in oil refinery, in the sulphur treatment in crude oil for past 14 years, it's a fun job and so much better than sitting in a office And my unit transforms H2S, So2 into sulfur stone, 1.2m tons each day which gets exported, mostly uses as fertilizers
@Jeramie OK yeah and it gets treated again for reuse, I'd say refineries now are extremely efficient, Steam gets reused over and over, once it gets cool down it will again go to boiler and heated again
So this is why when I used to take a bunch of pharmaceuticals my butt would get all oily. Makes perfect sense now, thanks. I guess that's why I don't take pills anymore. For decades now. A friend with weed is a friend indeed.
It is a great field. While we are starting to move toward green energy, fossil fuels are not going out anytime soon. Fossil Fuel is still the global standard for energy. Its a very exciting and satisfying career choice. You also get to travel and see some remarkable things while supplying the world with fuels, lubricants, plastics, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, etc.
I clicked on the video because I found the video thumbnail image amazing. Good animation. I was actually searching for fraction distillation fun facts for presentation....
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I watched 4 years after this was shared ... used it to show the upcoming diesel shortage of 10/22 is hogwash. Gas and propane would be in trouble also. Thx
@Net Isn’t heavy oil used in ships and such. .. Huh.. I always thought the residue was used for making bitumen for roads and shingles of roofing, but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for telling me.
Actually, mid grade gasoline is almost always blended on demand: at the gas station. Thats why if either high test or low tedt tanks pump dry... there's no mid grade. Can't proportion something not there.
Every day i'm becoming more ok with the fact that a lot of the food i eat was at least partially in an oil refinery and i don't know if that's good or bad
2012 starts of my Energy industry job but then it become unreachable afterwards. But get twice chances from 2018 & 2020. Total Gas and NeWave Oil respectively. NeWave Oil is an abroad job.
What is changed with the molecule to achieve a different octane rating? I understand fuel knock-resistance and pre-detonation but what actually changes on the molecular level?
One of the ways is isomerization - the molecule becomes branched after isomerization (while keeping the same number of carbon atoms). Branched molecule has higher octane than a straight one. The simple example is normal pentane vs iso-pentane
I suppose, it's not possible. Each process has losses (or yield in other words). Additionally, it's impossible to convert some oil fractions into the others
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) for just few months and now they are multimillionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.
I urge everyone to start somewhere now no matter how small, this is literally the time for that, forget material things, don't get tempted, I became more better the moment I realized this
While we most definitely have to phase out fossil fuels or at least mitigate the use, you cannot deny the amazing engineering and use to advance humanity. So many things rely on this, but it’s limited and quite dangerous.
there's a market for oils, look at the plastics, lubricants, and well, pretty much every industry uses one form of oil. All of which have a market, and refineries sell products to them too that aren't gasoline.
