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  • The hot crude oil gasses are passed into the bottom of a distillation column and become ___ as they move up the height of the column.

    cooler
  • As the gasses cool below their boiling point, they ___ into a liquid.

    condense
  • The liquids are then drawn off the distilling column at specific heights, ranging from ___ ___ at the bottom, ___ ___ ___ in the mid-sections, and ___ ___ at the top.

    • heavy resids (residuals)
    • raw diesel fuels
    • raw gasoline
  • Raw ___ are then processed further to make several different products.

    fractions
  • One barrel of crude petroleum contains only ___-___% gasoline.

    30-40% gasoline
  • Transportation demands require that over 50% of the crude oil be "___" into gasoline.

    "converted"
  • To meet the high demand for gasoline, some petroleum fractions must be converted to gasoline by means of ___, ___, and ___.

    • cracking
    • reforming
    • isomerization
  • fluid catalytic cracking unit =

    uses heat and catalyst to break or "crack" large gas oil molecules into a range of smaller ones, specifically gasoline, low quality diesel stocks, and residual oil called slurry (fuel oil).
  • Generally, the simplest refineries consist of ___, ___, ___, and some ___ capacity.

    • crude
    • vacuum
    • reforming
    • hydrotreating
  • The mid level of refinery complexity adds ___ ___ and some additional ___ to the most basic refinery capabilities.

    • cat cracking (catalytic cracking)
    • hydrotreating
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