Making Solvents from Gasoline

[Bloated_Tony_Danza]

The fractionating column used in oil refineries is really unique. The column is segmented into multiple chambers, each of which has liquid back flow arresters. This allows gasses to flow up the column, but when they reach a given chamber and condense into liquids, they fill the chamber and are siphoned off. This means that one distillation produces multiple distillate streams simultaneously! Imagine boiling one gallon of gas and recovering 5, 6, 10 different distillate streams all at the same time! Talk about the savings haha

[indecisivechisel]

As an PhD student in synthetic organic chemistry, I love these vids! Great quality and really interesting subjects

[AMason]

My family has a long history working in the oil industry and I still learned something new today!

[alialiyev]

Great quality video. As a student studying chemical engineer bachelor seeing such processes in practice and not on just paper really helps with learning.

[apryason]

Thanks for this video. I am starting to understand more about the work my father did at Chevron Research in the 1950s-60s, with catalysts and combustion research, to eliminate the need for tetraethyl lead. He didn't invent unleaded gas, but helped develop Chevron's Richmond, California refinery's method of making it. After he died I read a metastudy indicating the reduction of childhood exposure to environmental lead leads to a significant reduction in violent crime when the children become a young adults.

[sulaimanmajed]

thanks for this great video, i also did a gasoline distillation myself using 91 unleaded gasoline( saudi arabia aramco gasoline )
i came up with same light fractions and at 80 dgrees a lot of liquid came over and took 40% of the distillation process.

[chanheosican]

That is very cool to isolate and purify gasoline. Heptanes from chemical companies are NOT cheap either. It an interesting concept.

[numberpirate]

My ancestors were whalers, . they hunted whales and rendered their oil, and my great great grandfather was asked by someone (I forget their name, they had been friends from when they both went to MIT) who worked at standard oil of how to separate the layers and he helped build the first commercial refinery. Another funny thing is I grew up where the first person to ever make an oil pump came from, Edwin Drake was his name, in Castleton Vermont, New England USA. SO my hometown was the oil pump and my ancestor was the oil refinery. I think I have some bad Karma.

[Nighthawkinlight]

Yeah! What a great project! Potentially very useful.

Can I ask if any particular segment seems to be responsible for the distinct gasoline smell? Or does the odor seem to come from a blend of everything?

[joshuateter]

This channel is about to blow up, get ready! 😎🚀😎
Keep up the excellent videos man!

[pyromen]

Cool stuff! I just binge watched your previous videos last week and am excited for what you have planned for the future!

[gamingmarcus]

Always a pleasure to see new chemistry channels pop up. Subbed =)

[DanSvoboda-hgmm]

quite nostalgic for me. i was awarded a PhD in organic chemistry in 1990. i synthesized a lot of compounds that required fractional distillation. mostly under dry inert atmosphere at reduced pressure. fun times!

[johnladuke]

Good video. Lots of clear explanation and plenty of camera shots of the interesting parts. It's like an early NileRed video, only he seems to be down to <2 videos per year. Glad to see there's someone uploading far more often with quality chemistry videos, you've got a new subscriber!

[MadScientist]

Very nice man. I can't say I've ever considered doing this, but it was rather enlightening in several ways.

Might go after that toluene tho...

[kiwichem]

if anyone wanted to recreate this if you dont have a fume hood do it outside and dont use and open flame that could go very bad very quickly.
good video though :)

[brianmcquain]

Bravo and thank you for your high-quality

[Drew_TheRoadLessTraveled]

Awsome infomation. I had never thought of what I put through my motorbike fuel system untill I saw this video.

[HazelChem]

nice video!
to get more inert solvents you can stir the gasoline with some oxidiser like KMnO4, NaCrO4. Followed by a water washing (this also reduces the amount of EtOH)

mfg hazelChem

[yt]

For countries where amateur chemists are so heavily regulated that even buying Hexane is a difficulty, this is actually useful if you don't need the highest purity.