In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using ...

Crude oil can be separated into different fractions using fractional distillation. Combustion of fuels and the fire triangle A variety of fuels undergo combustion, and the products made can be ...

US refiners in the Midwest are unlikely to reduce imports from Canada as the limited substitutability of Canadian crude with ...

Other products are e.g. lubricants and asphalt. The most important step in the refinery is distillation. Crude oil is heated and headed through a column. This process yields several petroleum products ...

Lyondell plans to shut the first of two crude distillation units (CDUs ... CDUs begin the refining of crude oil by breaking it down into feedstocks for all other units at the refinery.

“The U.S. imported an average of 6.6 million barrels per day of crude oil ... by simple distillation,” they added. “Canada provided 75 percent of U.S. heavy crude oil imports in 2024 ...

LyondellBasell Industries said it has halted operations of a crude and coker unit at its 290,000 b/d Houston refinery as the global chemicals company continued the oil refinery's scheduled shutdown ...