How petroleum was formed, its extraction, refining and uses

PETROLEUM:

    

petroleum is also a fossil fuel

which means it is formed from the

remains of dead organisms but it is

liquid as the process of its formation

was much different from the formation of

coal petroleum was formed from the

remains of sea creatures as they died

their body settled at the bottom of sea

or ocean and gradually got covered by

 

EXPLANATION

over million of years absence of air high temperature and high

pressure transformed the dead organisms

into petroleum and natural gas

all of us know how important petrol

diesel etc are we get this fuels from

petroleum we also get kerosene from

petroleum petroleum needs to be refined

in the refineries to get these fuels raw

petroleum or crude oil is a dark oily

liquid within unpleasant smell it is

extracted from Earth's crust through a

deep oil well a huge pump extracts the

petroleum through this deep oil well

patella is a complex mixture petroleum

refining means separating its components

and it is carried out at petroleum

refineries this separation process is

known as fractional distillation this

process is actually for separating

chemical components by their boiling

point mixture is heated to a temperature

at which one or more fractions of the

compound will vaporize look different

components vaporize at different

temperature and thus get separated so we

get lots of things from petroleum we get

fuels like petrol kerosene diesel LPG

etc we get lubricating oil paraffin wax

which we get from the residue of the

refining process is used for making

appointments candles petroleum jelly

face cream wax etc bitumen which is also

obtained from residue of fractional

distillation process is used for making

paint and building roads every component

of petroleum has some use hence it is

often called black gold

natural gas is a very important fuel

because it is easy to transport through

the pipes natural gas is stored under

high pressure as compressed natural gas

in short c and g

CNG is used for generating power as fuel

for cars CNG is less polluting than

petrol diesel etc but coal petroleum

natural gas etc aren't available in

unlimited quantity with heavy use of

these we will run out of these resources

in not so distant future so these are

exhaustible natural resources hence we

have turned to resources which are

available in unlimited quantity for fuel

electricity production etc sunlight air

are such inexhaustible natural resources

solar energy is nowadays used for

generating electricity for home industry

etc also for cooking in not so distant

future solar energy would also be used

to run cars so now you know about

petroleum and its usage to sum up

petroleum is a fossil fuel petroleum was

formed from the dead remains of sea

animals millions of years ago petroleum

gas petrol diesel kerosene paraffin wax

liberating oil are obtained by refining

petroleum like coal petroleum is an

exhaustible natural resource