A.2 Petroleum In Our Future

Petroleum is a very important ___________________ resource.

Our society needs it for both:

- Burning - for ENERGY

- Building - using it to make materials

The United States uses over 18,000,000 barrels of petroleum per __________.

87 % of the petroleum is __________as an energy source for heating, electricity, and transportation.

13 % of the petroleum is used for __________plastics, fabrics, and other things that affect our lives.

Since petroleum is a nonrenewable resource, there is a __________amount.
 
 

A.3 Who has  the oil?

 

Like other chemical resources, petroleum is unevenly distributed on the planet. Large amounts are concentrated in small areas.

 

Petroleum: to build or to burn? Section A

1. Explain why petroleum is a nonrenewable resource.

2. List two ways in which our society uses petroleum.

3. How many gallons of oil does the U. S. used each day.(Hint: 42 gallons/barrel)

4. The majority of the oil is used for?

5. What happened to the price of oil during 1973 oil embargo?

6. In the years to come, what will happen to the price of oil? Why?

7. Why did we use so little oil in 1910 ?

8. What percent of the petroleum is used for building materials?

9. What happens to the petroleum that is used for energy. Where do the waste products go?

 

B.1 Petroleum (Black Gold)

 

Petroleum has been called "black __________"

Petroleum can make __________of different and useful products.

Petroleum is a mixture of many different molecular ________________. These compounds have two chemical properties:
 

Chemists can combine small molecules from petroleum into giant, chainlike molecules that can be made into films, fibers, artificial rubber, and all kinds of ________________.

Petroleum as it is pumped from underground is called ________________ OIL.

Crude oil is made mostly of hydrocarbons.

Hydrocarbons are molecular compounds that are composed of two elements - ________________AND ________________

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B2. Petroleum Refining

Distillation is a method of _____________________ substances according to their boiling points.

The vapors rising from the boiling mixture at different temperatures are cooled and condensed into liquids, call ________________, which can be collected separately.

The refining process separates crude oil by distillation into fractions.

These fractions are mixtures of hydrocarbons of similar ________________ ________________ and other properties.

 

 

Questions - pages 159-160

 

1. During the distillation process, which molecules vaporize first?

2. What do the higher boiling point fractions contain?

3. How tall are the petroleum refining distilling columns?

 

B.3 Viscosity

The refining process separates crude oil by distillation into fractions.

The higher boiling point fractions contain the ________________molecules.

The lower boiling point fractions contain the ________________molecules.

Different petroleum distillates have different ________________.

Viscosity is the term for resistance to ________________.

High viscosity flows slowly and with difficulty, like honey.

Low viscosity flows readily, like water.

The viscosity of a fluid determines how fast it can be ________________.

 

 

B. 5 Petroleum molecules

Petroleum is made mostly of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

These atoms combined together to form molecules consisting of ________________ ________________ between 5 to 20 carbons atoms long.

 

B.6 Chemical Bonding

Hydrocarbons and their derivatives are in a branch of chemistry called ________________ CHEMISTRY.

The term organic chemistry comes from old thought that these chemical compounds are only made from plants and/or animals (living things).

Hydrocarbons are molecular compounds. These compounds are joined together to from a backbone known as a CARBON CHAIN. Hydrogen atoms are attached to this chain.

These hydrogen atoms are bonded to the carbon by chemical bonds.

There are two major types of chemical bonds:

________________bonds

________________bond
 

 

 
Review Questions for Section A and B p. 152-175
 
   

2. Which area of the world uses the most petroleum?

 

3. Is there a relation between oil use and world population? Explain your answer.

 

 

4. What is crude oil?

 

 

5. Define hydrocarbons.

 

 

6. Explain in detail the petroleum refining process. (Include in your explanation the following terms: fractionating tower, boiling point, collecting trays, height of tower and location of the collecting trays).
 
 

Put answer in note book
 
 
7. Give three example of how viscosity is a very important property of petroleum.

 

8. Explain intermolecular forces and give an example.

 
   

10. Define a carbon chain. Give an example.

 

 

11. Draw the atomic diagram of the carbon atom. Using atomic diagrams, electrons dots and the line structure methods, draw the models of the methane molecule CH4.

 

 

12. What are the alkane series of hydrocarbons?

 

 

13. Draw the line structure for : ethane, hexane and octane.

 

 

14. Explain the difference between straight chain alkanes and branched-chain alkanes. Give example.

 

 

15. Define an isomer. Draw the isomers of hexane.

 

 

16. How does the number of branches in an alkane hydrocarbon molecule affects its boiling point?

 
 

C.3 Energy Conversion

Energy conversion - the changing of one type of energy into ________________.

For example: The energy conversion required to work hair dryer
 
 

To move an automobile, there are a number of energy conversions. These conversions result in a loss of energy. In fact, about 25% of the chemical energy in gasoline is converted to useful mechanical energy (motion). The remaining 75% of gasoline's chemical energy is lost to the surroundings as heat.

 

Energy conversion calculations
 
 

 
C.4 The Chemistry of Burning

The burning of hydrocarbons involves chemical reactions of carbon and hydrogen with ________________ gas at elevated temperatures.

The equation for the combustion of C25H52 .

 

___ C25H52 + ___ O2 --->____ CO2 + ____ H2O + thermal energy

This reaction is ________________. The energy given off by the formation of the products is greater than the energy needed to break the bonds in the hydrocarbons and the oxygen molecules.

Fuels provide energy as they burn.
 

Molar heat of combustion - when one mole (molar mass) of a substance burns
 
C.7 Altering Fuels

In 1913, chemists had devised a process for breaking (cracking) molecules in kerosene (12 to 16 carbon atoms) into smaller molecules by heating the kerosene to 600 - 700º C.

More than a third of all crude oil undergoes cracking. The process has been improved by adding catalysts (such as aluminum oxide).

A catalyst increases the ________________of a chemical reaction but is not itself used up.

 

Gasoline rating

 

Octane rating - a commonly used gasoline quality scale -- An octane rating of 100 means ________________engine burning -- An octane rating of 0 means ________________engine burning.

The burning must not be too fast or it will cause ________________. Branched octane hydrocarbons (isomers) burn the best in an engine.

 

 

Useful Materials From Petroleum

 

D.1 Beyond Akanes

Carbon is a versatile building-block atom. It can form bonds to other ________________in several different ways.

If a carbon atom bonds to three other atoms -- not to four, a double bond is formed. This type of hydrocarbon molecule is called an alkene.

 

Ethene C2H4

 

 

 

 

 

A carbon atom must share ________________electrons to fill its outer energy level completely. This can occur when four electrons are shared between the atoms. This double sharing of electrons is called a double covalent bond.

Alkenes are more chemically ________________than the alkanes because many chemical reactions occur at their ________________bonds.

Compounds containing double bonds are described as ________________since not all carbon atoms are bonded to their full capacity of four atoms.

Not all builder molecules are hydrocarbons. Some also contain one or more other elements, such as oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, or sulfur.

 

D.2 Alkene series

Draw the chemical molecular line structure for the following molecules:

1- butene

 

 

2-butene

 

Alkynes series

The sharing of three pairs of electrons between carbons is called a triple bond.

C2H2

 

 

 

 

2-butyne

 

 

 

 

D.3 More Builder Molecules

 

There are two important classes of compounds in which carbon atoms are joined in ________________.

Cycloalkanes - saturated hydrocarbons in which carbon atoms are joined in a ring structure

Aromatic compounds - are ringed hydrocarbons with double bonds
 

Benzene C6H6

 

 

 

 

D.4 Builder Molecules Contain Oxygen

Some organic compounds contain groups of atoms which contain ________________. These functional groups impart a certain characteristic property to the organic compounds

Examples of functional groups

 

Alcohol

 

 

ether

 

 

carboxylic acid

 

ester

 

D.5 Creating New Options: Petrochemicals

Natural material - made directly from found materials such as wood or stone, or crafted from metals, glass, and clays.

________________materials - created by the chemical industry from oil or natural gas. These compounds are called petrochemicals.

Examples of petrochemicals:

detergents, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics

In many cases petrochemicals serve as raw materials (or intermediates) in production of other synthetic substances - particularly plastics.

Plastics include: paints, fabrics, rubber, insulation materials, foams, glass-like substances, adhesives, molding, and structural materials.

Alkenes are aromatics and are important builder molecules. The two most industrially-important alkenes are ethene (ethylene) and propene.

 

 

 

 

Addition reaction - the adding of H-OH to a double bond producing an alcohol

 

Ethene + water --------> ethanol

 

 

 

 

Polymer - a large molecule composed of 500 to ________________or more repeating units. A polymer that is made by the addition of a small monomer (1 unit ) into large polymer is called addition polymers

Polyethene

 

 

 

 

Polymers' ________________such as flexibility, rigidity, strength and toughness can be controlled by the position of certain molecules.

 

 

Some polymer molecules are formed by the loss of ________________molecules from adjacent monomer units - these are called condensation reactions. Polymers formed in this way are known as ____________________ polymers.