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  • What are the benefits of crude oil refining?
  • Petroleum refineries convert (refine) crude oil into petroleum products for use as fuels for transportation, heating, paving roads, and generating electricity and as feedstocks for making chemicals. Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products.
  • How do you refine crude soybean oil?
  • Raw or crude soybean oil is first mixed with water and phosphoric acid through a calibrated dosing pump at a slightly elevated temperature, resulting in precipitation of the gums or phospholipids. This mixture is then passed through a high-speed centrifuge to separate the precipitated gums from the soybean oil.
  • What is the efficiency of crude oil refining?
  • Argonne concluded an average petroleum refinery efficiency of 88%. See the table below for detailed energy efficiencies for petroleum refineries that were configured to produce gasoline with different specifications.
  • How is the refining of crude oil done to get useful pure petroleum products?
  • The crude is heated by a furnace and is sent to a distillation tower, where it is separated by boiling point. Then the material is converted by heating, pressure or a catalyst into finished products including fuels like gasoline and diesel, and specialty products like asphalt and solvents.