all starts with a backhoe to remove sand that through a process become so fuel oil.
This is the process large companies that continue to transform the raw material, sand with bitumen, the fraction of oil gr ande
1. To start with you have to dig between 5 and 15 meters of earth to reach the tar sand layers, between 35 and 50 meters, where the proportion of bitumen is 7% to 15%.
2. The crane truck loaded with 400 tons each will give us about 200 gallons of oil.
3. Large chunks of tar sands are crushed and the remains moved to a storage hopper.
4. Then go all the sand and a machine is responsible for screening the large chunks of tar sands that are good for nothing, but leaves spending cuts of 5 cm. or less.
5. They throw hot water to form clay that starts with the air separation process. The frosting sticks to the bubbles and emerges as foam.
6. Water and sand leading to an artificial lake, which receive waste water treatment and recycling.
7. The foam emerging aspect of chocolate milk. With a degasser bubbles are removed and it is just the icing, which is treated with a solvent for liquefaction.
8. The mixture passes through a pipe of 60 cm. in diameter in a southerly direction along 493 kilometers, the trip takes 3 days. The solvent back for a return pipe in the bitumen is out.
9. Because of the low temperatures, the pipes must be continuously heated.
10. The movement that lead inside the pipes damaged, they lose an inch thick month by erosion.
11. To convert the dense mass of bitumen in oil, cut off their long molecules. The process requires 450 ยบ C and a pressure 200 times that of the environment.
12. Once fragmented the molecules into short, hydrogen is added, which acts like a bandage on the wounds of the cuts.
13. Oil is now ready to go to the refinery, which was transformed into products like gasoline or plastic.
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