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USES OF

PETROLEUMVIGNESH.N.BABU8th ‘B’, ROLL NO. 34The Oxford Senior Secondary School

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I THANK BINDU MA’AM

FOR PROVIDING ME AN EXCELLENT

OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE UP A

PROJECT ON “USES OF PETROLEUM”

. I ALSO SINCERELY THANK EVERY

ONE WHO HAS HELPED ME IN

COMPLETING THIS PROJECT.

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1. INTRODUCTION 4

2. AGRICULTURE USE 5

3. NORTH-EAST USE 6

4. ROCKET USE 7-9

5. MILITARY USE 10

6. PHOTO GALLERY 11-13

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY 14

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INTRODUCTIONPetroleum, or crude oil, naturally occurring 

oily, bituminous liquid composed of various organic chemicals. 

It is found in large quantities below the surface of Earth and is used as a fuel and as a raw material in the chemical industry. 

Modern industrial societies use it primarily to achieve a degree of mobility—on land, at sea, and in the air—that was barely imaginable less than 100 years ago. In addition, petroleum and its derivatives are used in the manufacture of medicines and fertilizers, foodstuffs, plastics, building materials, paints, and cloth and to generate electricity.

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Modern farming techniques depend on extensive use of fossil fuels—oil, gasoline, and natural gas—for a variety of tasks. 

Fuels are needed to operate machines for plowing, planting, and harvesting, to make fertilizers and pesticides, and to build irrigation systems. After food is harvested, energy from fossil fuels is used to transport and process food. 

Although fossil fuel supplies are ample for the near future, they cannot last forever. 

Also, extensive use of fossil fuels damages the environment, contributing to air, soil, and water pollution, ozone depletion                         (see Ozone Layer), and global warming.

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NORTH-EAST USEA great number of burners fired with 

Petroleum rigs which were installed, as newly built transmission lines brought Petroleum into the heavily populated areas of the Northeast. This reflected the growing popularity of automatic heating installations, plus increased new-home construction. 

Natural gas is now being used in more homes than any other fuel. It has displaced mixed and manufactured gas. New York City, for example, has recently completed the change-over from mixed to natural gas started several years ago.

Another growing use of natural gas has been as a raw material in the expanding petrochemical industry.

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ROCKET USESolid rocket fuels  are called composite 

fuels and are composed of synthetic rubbers or 

plastics with additives.

 These additives include binders that hold 

the fuel together, powdered metals that increase 

specific impulses, and chemicals that control the 

speed at which the propellant grain burns. 

Usually, the faster a rocket burns, the more 

thrust it produces. 

The rocket also uses up its fuel                         

                faster if the fuel burns faster.

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Engineers must take the burning rate into 

account when they design solid-fueled rockets, 

because stopping the propellant from burning 

once it has ignited is very difficult. 

Rockets such as booster rockets, which must 

produce large amounts of thrust in a short period 

of time, use chemicals to increase the burning 

rate. 

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Other rockets that need to produce less 

thrust over a longer period of time use chemicals 

to decrease the burning rate. 

The longer-burning rockets are called 

sustainers.

 A few types of rockets have small tanks and 

pumps that can spray water or another 

extinguisher on the propellant to stop its burning.

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The demand has increased enormously as airplane production has expanded to a level of about 100,000 planes in 1943. 

A single Flying Fortress uses gasoline at the rate of 6 bbl. per hour of flying time, and a raid using 100 planes may require as much as 36,000 bbl. 

Ground warfare is also a heavy consumer of gasoline; the tanks of an armored division require 6 bbl. per mile, not to mention trucks, jeeps, staff cars, and other vehicles in a mechanized unit.

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Offshore Drilling Rig

Natural Gas Production Petroleum Industry

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BIBLIOGRAPHYMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft 

Corporation. Latricia Lutz Lutz, Patricia. "Carbon." Microsoft® Student 2007 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: 

Microsoft Corporation, 2006. Encarta Encyclopedia John Mead/Photo Researchers, Inc

Molly D. AndersonPaul Quayle/Panos PicturesEsbin-Anderson/The Image WorksEncyclopedia Britannica/Mary Evans Picture Lee F. Snyder/Photo Researchers,Jason Hawkes/Tony Stone ImagesPaul Mcerlane/REUTERSTHE BETTMANN ARCHIVEA. Nikolayev/SOVFOTO-EASTFOTOKevin R. Morris/Corbis Fred LandisLandis, Fred. "Tractor." Microsoft® Student 2007 [DVD]. 

Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2006. 

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