Timeline for What happens to the waste products from crude oil refining?
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| May 11 at 18:48 | answer | added | Ryan Smith | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 10 at 13:56 | history | edited | Mithoron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6 at 15:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 5 at 16:23 | answer | added | Level River St | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 5 at 13:41 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | I tried to buy some "pure" Bitumen recently for a project. I was appalled at the high cost. | |
| May 3 at 12:16 | answer | added | Luaan | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 3 at 11:15 | comment | added | Luaan | A big part of modern engineering is making sure that nothing is really a waste product - partly for simple reasons of economics (someone who can make use of more of the products will likely be more profitable) and in a much bigger part, environmental legislation. When crude oil first started being used in the US, it was used to produce kerosene for lighting (seen as a "cleaner" alternative to coal gas); what happened to the waste products (making up the vast majority of the input)? Mostly the highly toxic waste was just dumped into rivers or burnt off. Gasoline was a waste byproduct once. | |
| May 3 at 10:37 | comment | added | user98325692 | Sorry I should have said I am viewing bitumen as a waste product from the point of view of the energy industry, meaning it cannot be used as a fuel. As one of the answers pointed out, actually it can, which I did not know. | |
| May 3 at 6:16 | answer | added | Joel Keene | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 3 at 5:42 | comment | added | Stian | Don't forget coke, which is the "final product" in my opinion. | |
| May 2 at 18:10 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 2 at 13:48 | comment | added | Mithoron | There is no fraction that would be wasted. They need to be purified, though. | |
| May 2 at 11:13 | answer | added | Ronith | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 2 at 10:37 | comment | added | matt_black | Bitumen is hardly a waste product given how many road surfaces are created from it. | |
| May 2 at 10:23 | comment | added | Buttonwood | Wikipedia compiles some fields of application of bitumen. | |
| S May 2 at 10:07 | review | First questions | |||
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| S May 2 at 10:07 | history | asked | user98325692 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |