Tag: petroleum

Dry cleaning means cleaning of tiles without using water or aqueous solvents. Petrol is used as a solvent in dry cleaning because it is highly vapourising organic solvent.

Petrochemicals are the chemical compunds obtained from petroleum. They are used for making detergents, solvents, elastomers, lubricants, gels, polymers, plastics, fibres, adhesives etc

Refining is the process where seperation of various compounds of crude oil occurs. 

Diesel engines have very high compression ratios. That is why it is used as a fuel for heavy motor vehicles.

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

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

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 petroleum. coal gas and coal tar are generated from raw coal.)

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

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