Chemistry final exam Flashcards
What are the three steps to refining:
Separation, Conversion Treating, Blending
What happens in Desalting
Contaminated salt is removed from oil
What happens if you don’t desalt
Corrosion
What is fractional distillation
Crude mixture is heated > Vapours rise > Condensed back to liquid
Where in a tower is it the coolest
The top
What is in the tower
Trays that allow for redistillation
What are fractions
Portions removed from tower at levels called side-draws. (Oil is called straight-run product)
What do bubble caps do
Force vapor through liquid by heating it.
Cracking
Feed is crude oil, purpose is to break down larger hydrocarbons (size alteration)
Alkylation
Feed is isobutane and propene or butene (small olefin), purpose is High octane rating fuels
Reforming
Feed is heated naphta, purpose is boosting octane rating
Isomerization
Feed is straight chain alkanes, purpose is to boost octane ratings.
What is hydrodesulfurization
Removing sulfur to produce gases with a better odor.
What about the structure of zeolites make them advantageous
They are porous and have a high surface area
What is isooctane
2,2,4 -trimethyl pentane (Octane rating 100)
What is isobutane
Methyl propane (Reactant in alkylation)
What is ethylene
Ethene (Plastic Polymers)
What is butadiene
1-3 butadiene (Rubber polymers)
What are the benefits of zeolites compared to others
More active than other catalysts, very durable, very affordable.
Stirred reactors:
Liquid reactants, used in alkylation
Fixed bed reactor
Used in sweetening, hydrocracking, reforming
Fluidized bed reactor
Used in catalytic cracking
Tubular reactor
Used in isomerization and polymerization
What are the two different types of polymerization
Addition and condensation