How Is Plastic Made? A Simple StepByStep Explanation
WEBFigure 3: Fractional distillation of crude oil. Distillation of crude oil and production of petrochemicals Crude oil is a mixture of hundreds of hydrocarbons that also contains some solids and some gaseous hydrocarbons dissolved in it from the alkane family (mainly it is CH 4 and C 2 H 6, but it can be C 3 H 8 or C 4 H 10). Crude oil is first ...