The earth is the home of human survival, is a beautiful planet of life. At the same time, the Earth is also a very resource-rich planet, it is with the aid of a large number of resources, human beings can develop so fast, if there are no resources, human science and technology will be very difficult to progress, and the human civilization is very difficult to quickly get out of the Earth to start the exploration of the universe.
The earth's resources are very varied, in addition to many metal resources, there is a liquid resource is even more abundant, which plays an important role in the scientific and technological development of human civilization. This resource is petroleum, may we all know oil, also know that cars and diesel fuel is extracted from oil, but few people know the refining rate of oil is how much 1000 kg of oil can be extracted from how much gasoline and diesel fuel? The following let the experts tell us the answer.
If you ask people, what is the most important resource that mankind has explored and discovered after entering the age of science and technology? I believe many people will answer is oil. That's right, although this kind of petroleum has been discovered hundreds of years ago, but at that time people for this kind of stinky liquid material will not be refined, not to mention the use of their value is far less than the ancient people found coal, because coal can be used directly.
Only when mankind came into the age of science and technology, scientists began to research and explore the utilization of oil, and found that it is a very important and powerful energy source, when mankind mastered the refining technology of oil, oil also ushered in its great development. Until now, oil can be said to be the most important energy source in the development process of mankind, many industries and fields of human civilization need oil, if there is no oil, mankind's current scientific and technological development will fall into great difficulties.
Oil just from the ground or the bottom of the sea after the pumping out of crude oil, which is a very unpleasant liquid black material, people want to use it also need to go through a variety of refining, so how much gasoline and diesel oil can be refined from a ton of crude oil? In fact, in the refining process of crude oil is also subject to a lot of conditions, refining technology, refining equipment, environment and region, different quality of crude oil, etc. will have an impact on the final refining results.
Under normal circumstances, the refining rate of a typical crude oil is about 40%, of which 10% is gasoline and 30% is diesel. With more advanced equipment, the remaining residual oil can be catalytically cracked, and a secondary refining process can be carried out to obtain about 35% gasoline, 30% diesel and 15% liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
According to the results of this ratio statistics, 1000 kilograms of crude oil can be put forward about 0.31 kilograms of gasoline and 0.48 kilograms of diesel. Of course, this is the general crude oil, due to the quality of crude oil in different regions can also be very different, if it is a higher quality crude oil, automobile and diesel oil refining rate will also be higher. We can also see from this that the amount of oil refined for cars and diesel is relatively large.
And oil can be said to be a treasure of the whole body, may be many people's knowledge of oil, only know it can be refined out of the car and diesel. But in fact, oil in the refining process will produce a variety of by-products, such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene, lubricants, asphalt, plastics, fibers, etc., in addition to these, such as naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas, benzene, toluene, xylene, petroleum coke, sulfur, heavy oil, paraffin wax and so on, these are also the by-products of oil.
This shows how important a resource petroleum is, and the value it can produce far exceeds our imagination. After reading this, I believe that many friends also understand why some powerful countries would rather start a war, but also to rob other small countries of oil resources. Because oil is not only a resource that can generate huge economic benefits, but also an energy source that can promote the rapid development of science and technology.
If there is no oil resources, a lot of science and technology can only be fantasy and can not be practiced to move forward, it can be said that the current level of scientific and technological development of mankind, oil is an important decisive resource, who controls the oil, is the same as controlling the important foundation of human development.
Of course, the massive use of oil has brought about significant development, but it has also brought about tremendous side effects, namely the deterioration of the ecological environment. The reason why the global temperature is rising is due to the rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the important source of carbon dioxide is brought by industrial production, and industrial production utilizes one of the most energy sources is petroleum.
We now drive cars, airplanes and other technological products, basically rely on petroleum energy to promote, and oil is not a kind of environmental protection energy, on the contrary, its pollution is relatively high. That's why the ecological environment of the earth is now deteriorating, just human beings now the development of science and technology is still inseparable from the oil, so it is impossible for us to stop the use of oil to protect the environment, can only be in other ways to make the pollution rate of the oil lower.
However, we also know that oil is a non-renewable resource, and there are two ways of saying that it is formed. One way is to say that oil is generated from carbon within the earth's crust itself, and has nothing to do with living things. And the other theory is that oil is an ancient ocean or lake organisms die, the carcasses are deposited on the seabed. The oceans contained a lot of salt, so biological fats and proteins could not be degraded immediately, and under strong pressure, the fats and proteins were gradually liquefied and turned into oil.
Whichever way you say the cause of oil's formation, there is no doubt about its non-renewability. Even if oil can be regenerated, it will take a long time to do so, possibly millions of years or hundreds of millions of years. So mankind is bound to face the problem of oil depletion in the future, and not only oil, but also other earth resources will also face the problem of depletion.
Therefore, the real place for human beings to exploit resources in the future is in the space, and only the vast universe has infinite resources, which can satisfy the rapid and continuous development of human beings. Of course, to mine the resources of the universe is not an easy thing, the need for scientific and technological development to a higher degree to be able to do, with the current technology of mankind is still not able to do space mining, perhaps only when mankind has realized the day of controllable nuclear fusion, the real era of space mining will come.
However, whether the Earth's resources will be able to support it until that time is still an unknown. It depends on whether human science and technology can develop fast enough, so human beings are now a kind of race between science and technology and resources, the development of science and technology exceeds the degree of consumption of resources, human beings will be able to realize a major breakthrough in science and technology before the exhaustion of the Earth's resources, and enter the space mining era.