Petroleum Products

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Petroleum Products: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Refining of Petroleum, Petroleum, Constituents of Petroleum, Knocking in Petroleum, Octane Number in Petroleum, Cetane Number in Petroleum & Synthetic Petrol etc.

Important Questions on Petroleum Products

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Discuss the composition of petroleum.

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Which of the following method is used to separate Petrol from crude oil?

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Give any two uses of petroleum.

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Explain the properties of petroleum.

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Describe petroleum.

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Define octane number of petrol.

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Explain Fischer-Tropsch process of synthesis of synthetic petrol.

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Octane number can be changed by:

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The decreasing order of the anti-knocking value of octane number of the following is:

(I) CH4  (II) C2H6  (III) C3H8  (IV) C4H10

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Calculate the octane number of gasoline fuel, which contains 25%n-heptane and 75% is iso-octane .

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Which of the following increases the octane number?

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Which of the following has highest knocking?

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Gasoline with an octane number of 80 is equivalent in knocking characteristics, to a mixture of heptane and iso-octane of the following composition

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Petrochemicals can be used to prepare

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TEL is a compound used as

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Tetraethyl lead is a

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What will be the octane number of best fuel?

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Which of these processes is used in synthesis of petroleum?

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A petroleum fraction having boiling range 70200 oC and containing 610 carbon atoms per molecule is called