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A group of people escorted Xiao Letian into the gigantic No. 0 Workshop, which was more than 2000 square meters. It was filled with all kinds of machinery, and a series of metal processing equipment had been assembled!
Six steam engines were located to the north of the factory, providing power for the entire workshop. These steam engines were lavishly burning gasoline and diesel, and the smoke coming out of the pipes was pure white.
”He really got something on the spot. How extravagant!” ”Directly burning the oil, hahaha...” Xiao Letian laughed.
”Yes …” Borneo is severely lacking in coal, so using sea ships to transport it over is too uneconomical. Therefore, we have to burn these by-products after refining the kerosene, otherwise, it would be a waste … ”
Ren Youweimen bent his waist like a shrimp, and used the cautious answer unique to the Fu Sang people!
The middle leaves of the nineteenth century was the starting period for humans to commercialize and use petroleum products. Before this, most of the oil was used in the military, so very few were used for civilian purposes.
This was because the extracted oil was a mixed solution. The nature of the oil was actually a compound of hydrocarbon. In chemistry, this was what they called hydrocarbons!
Alkanes, Cycloalkanes, Aromatic Hydrocarbons... And so on. Adding water, natural gas, and all kinds of impurities together into a miraculous solution!
Under different geological conditions, the color, taste and composition of the oil are all different, and they are all different as well!
There were many taboos in the use of natural oil. Why was it that even though the use of oil was recorded three to four thousand years ago, the people still used firewood and coal to heat up the entire nineteenth century?
Even the lighting chose candle lamps over oil?
The key point was that this kind of hydrocarbon that was covered in impurities was too dangerous. Directly burning it would produce large amounts of poisonous gas, which could be used to make a fire and cook. It was extremely pungent!
If you use it to light a lamp, your eyes will tear up after a while!
In the final analysis, there were too many impurities in the original oil!
It was not until 1853, when Polish scientist Agnes Lukasievich distilled petroleum to produce the product of kerosene!
Through high temperature distillation, cooling the cycle, using mixed solvents with different boiling point of different materials, the oil was finally tamed!
Diesel, gasoline, kerosene, bitumen... Layers after layers of supplies were stripped off and the civilian oil products began to be extremely rich!
But in the late 19th century, the petroleum products used were mainly kerosene, while gasoline and diesel were mostly discarded as by-products!
Does it look like a waste? However, that was how the refineries around the world handled diesel and gasoline!
Without a market, no one would buy these fuels. Refineries would only use these 'wastes' as fuel for heating during the winter. If it was in the summer, these 'wastes' would be even more wasteful. People would burn these 'wastes'!
For people nowadays, only kerosene was useful because it could be used to burn light. Furthermore, kerosene could also be used as a mechanical cleaning agent during mechanical processing. It had a very wide range of uses!
Diesel is not good, the ignition point is too high and the combustion is not sufficient, the smoke is too big... Poor review!
Petrol is no good either. If the ignition is too low, it will easily evaporate and even explode … Poor review!
Selection, or kerosene indicators are very good standards, very suitable for the civilian, so countries in the petrochemical products are using kerosene to make a profit!
All of the machinery in Workshop Zero that Xiao Letian saw today originated from gasoline and diesel. After it was not refined enough to sell, it was sent to someone else.