How many uses does oil have, and therefore why it is so difficult to get rid of it
Why is it so difficult to get rid of oil? Why is black gold so essential to our modern society and therefore it is so difficult to abandon it? An infographic shows us, with some precision, whatever the uses of oil are:
One strange thing you may have noticed is that while a barrel of oil holds 42 gallons, it ends up producing 45 gallons of refined products. This is because most refined products have a lower density than crude oil, resulting in an increase in volume which is called processing gain. Let's see a table listing the products resulting from the manufacturing process:
Petrol: 42.7%
Diesel: 27.4%
Aviation fuel 5.8%
Heavy oil for marine use: 5%
Bitumen / Asphalt: 4%
Light kerosene: 3%
Liquefied Gas: 2%
Other products (including plastics, rubber): 10.1%
In fact, with crude oil, other hydrocarbons are used in the refining process, including combustible ethanol and liquid gaseous hydrocarbons. Here is a simple table. in addition to crude oil which are used in the refining process.
The process of refining a 30,000-barrel batch of crude oil typically takes between 12 and 24 hours, with refineries operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Although the proportions of individual refined products may vary depending on market demand and other factors, most crude oil will continue to become fuel for global transportation and utilities.
These countless uses make it clear that it is not easy to leave oil, both as an energy source and as a raw material, despite the fact that the negative effects of using this material are known. Moreover, in countries such as Norway, where the diffusion of electric cars is widespread, there has not been a decline in its use. Evidently, transport is only one of the uses, and perhaps not the main one everywhere.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/quanti-usi-ha-il-petrolio-e-quindi-perche-e-cosi-difficile-liberarsene/ on Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:00:39 +0000.