producing petroleum products

Producing Petroleum Products

Applying concepts from density, states of matter, distillation, polymers and chemistry for the Problems with Oil Project. Sue Boudreau, OIS, Jan. 2011

What products are made from Petroleum?

Petroleum Products

More products from crude oil…

Another major use for 42% of our oil and coal…

List pros and cons of oil products so far…

Where in the earth does petroleum come from?

Look it up. Report out.

Where in the earth does oil come from?

Where in the world is petroleum found?

Find maps online of oil producing countries.

How do you get it out of the ground?

Research and report.

How to get oil out of the ground

Land and ocean oil rigs

What is crude oil made of?

Where have you seen an oil fractionation tower?

How are the fractions of oil separated?

Detail of fractional distillation

Which products have the highest boiling point? Which the lowest?

Flaming off natural gas

What is left after lighter fractions have evaporated from an oil spill?

What is the future of oil, and us? Predict the production in future.

What is the future of oil and the US? Statistical Review of World Energy, Full Report Workbook 2004. More

data is available from BP at BP Statistical Review website. Oil and Gas Liquids, 2004 Scenario, by Colin J. Campbell

Another way of looking at the same data! How’s it different? Why?

What’s the future of global oil?

What are some likely effects of losing cheap oil?

Discuss. Write your ideas down. Star the most important effects.

What can we do to reduce some bad effects of losing cheap oil? Individually? As a nation?

Save energy (and reduce oil consumption)

Invest in alternative energy

How much oil do YOU use?

Your ‘Carbon footprint’ is how much carbon dioxide you produce. When oil burns, it produces CO2. So carbon footprint is directly proportional to your oil usage.

Do an online survey to find your Carbon footprint. See 7th grade links on my web page.

List ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

Take some action!

Commit to consider ONE way to reduce your carbon footprint.

Put your post-it on the class action board. Can you make it a habit over a month?