Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Crude Oil, Carbon Footprint, Fossil Fuels, Fractional Distillation, Greener Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Coal Gasification, Principle of Fractional Distillation, Coal Liquefaction and, Cracking of Hydrocarbons
Important Questions on Fossil Fuels

Name the apparatus used in the fractional distillations.

List any two applications of fractional distillations.

Explain the importance of carbon capture and storage.


Explain Fischer-Tropsch process of coal liquefaction.


Syn gas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas.






Which of the following not an example for greener energy?

The fractional distillations depend on the vapour pressure of the liquid mixture. Justify.

How cracking of hydrocarbons important in petroleum industry?

During the cracking of alkanes, the bonds rather than the bonds break. Why?



