Gasoline/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]
• Environmental engineering [r]: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Air pollution [r]: The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (air pollutants) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. ^[e]
• Air Quality Index [r]: A number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the ambient air at a given location. ^[e]
• BTX [r]: The acronym commonly used in the petroleum and petrochemical industries to refer to mixtures of the aromatic hydrocarbons benzene, toluene, and the three xylene isomers. ^[e]
• Catalytic converter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Catalytic reforming [r]: A catalytic chemical process that converts petroleum naphthas into high-octane gasoline components. ^[e]
• Ethanol [r]: The chemical alcohol (C₂H₅OH) found in distilled spirits, wine and beer. ^[e]
• Fluid catalytic cracking [r]: A petroleum refining process that cracks the large hydrocarbon molecules in the portion of the petroleum crude oil boiling above 340 °C into lower boiling, more valuable high octane gasoline and olefinic gases. ^[e]
• Internal combustion engine [r]: A device for generating mechanical energy from the combustion of a fuel and external oxygen ^[e]
• Petroleum crude oil [r]: A naturally occurring, flammable liquid found primarily in underground geological formations and consists of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights plus other organic compounds. ^[e]
• Petroleum naphtha [r]: An intermediate hydrocarbon liquid stream derived from the refining of petroleum crude oil and which may be further processed to obtain a gasoline blending component. ^[e]
• Petroleum refining processes [r]: The chemical engineering processes used in petroleum refining. ^[e]
• Photochemical smog [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reid vapor pressure [r]: A measure of the volatility of petroleum crude oil, gasoline and other volatile petroleum products that is widely used in the petroleum industry. ^[e]
• Sulfur [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tetraethyl lead [r]: A liquid with the chemical formula (CH₃CH₂)₄Pb, once widely used (circa 1925 to 1990) to increase the octane rating of gasoline (petrol). ^[e]
• Vapor pressure [r]: The pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its liquid or solid phase. ^[e]