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Which one of the following is not a petroleum product?

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  1. Kerosene

  2. Gasoline

  3. Pitch black

  4. Bees wax

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Bees wax is not a petroleum product. It is a natural source of wax produced by honey bees.

Which petroleum product is used in making candles?

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  1. Bitumen

  2. Lubricating oil

  3. Paraffin wax

  4. L.P.G

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Candles are made up of Paraffin Wax. It is also a petroleum byproduct obtained during refinery. 

Which is the major step to refine crude oil?

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  1. Distillation

  2. Sublimation

  3. Chromatography

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The very first and important step in the process of refining of crude oil into petroleum gas is distillation.

Petrol and diesel can be obtained from:

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  1. coal tar

  2. coal

  3. petroleum

  4. coal gas

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Correct Option: A,C,D
Explanation:

(Petrol and diesel can be obtained from petroleum. coal gas and coal tar are generated from raw coal.)

What is refining of petroleum?

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  1. Purifying of petroleum

  2. Heating of petroleum

  3. Separation of petroleum products

  4. Extraction of petroleum

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Refining of petroleum is a process to transform crude oil into useful products like LPG, petrol, gasoline, diesel oil, etc.

Which kind of petroleum products are obtain from refining process? 

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  1. Gasoline

  2. Petrol

  3. Jet fuel/ Kerocene

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Petroleum refining process provides different products like gasoline, petrol, diseal, kerosene etc.   

Crude oil is pumped through which kind of pump?

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  1. Centrifugal

  2. Gear

  3. Skrew

  4. Reciprocating

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Centrifugal pump is a kind of pump in which liquids are sucked from the earth crust by applying force.

Identify the full form of the CDU.

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  1. Central Distillation Unit

  2. Center of Distillation Unit

  3. Crude Oil Distillation Unit

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Petroleum crude oils are converted into different petroleum products in the big refineries. This big refineries contain very important unit called as CDU that is crude oil distillation unit.

Petroleum refining process is used to convert _________________.

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  1. crude oil into liquefied petroleum gas

  2. crude gas into crude gas

  3. liquefied petroleum gas into crude oil

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Petroleum is the natural fuel obtain from the seas. In the refining process crude petroleum is converted into crude oil into liquefied petroleum gas.

Petroleum is an important source for all of the following except:

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  1. paraffin wax

  2. octane

  3. ethylene

  4. celluose

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Cellulose is derived from D-Glucose units, which condense through β(1→4)-glycosidic bonds. Petroleum is a source for lubricating oil, paraffin wax and other hydrocarbons.