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Recent History of the Chemical Industry 1973 to the Millennium: The New Facts of World Chemicals Since 1973 Read chapter Read first chapter

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18. Petroleum and Its Products

Author : Paul R. Robinson

Published in: Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

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Abstract

Petroleum makes the world go around. In the realm of global economics and politics, that statement is hard to dispute. Petroleum is uniquely versatile. When wisely handled, it is safe and clean. It is still abundant, and it can be stored for years at a time simply by leaving it in the ground. Under ambient conditions, it is a liquid and relatively noncompressible, so it can be carried across oceans in large tankers or pumped through pipelines hundreds of miles long. Its distilled products have high energy densities. Fifteen gallons of gasoline can move a 3,300-lb automobile across 350 flat miles at 65 miles per hour. (In metric units, those values are 57 L, 1,480 kg, 565 km, and 105 kph.) We transform petroleum into thousands of useful substances: fuels, lubricants, and chemicals with exceedingly different properties—from baby oil to pesticides, from adhesives to laxatives, from artificial sweeteners to sulfuric acid (Tables 18.1 and 18.2).

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Metadata
Title
Petroleum and Its Products
Author
Paul R. Robinson
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer US
Book
Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-4258-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-4259-2

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4259-2_18