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Petroleum Composition
Most people presume petroleum to be similar to gasoline or petrol, simply a less pure…
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How Hydrocarbons Burn
Ideal Reaction Under ideal settings, where only hydrocarbon and oxygen are present, the chemical reaction…
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Hydrocarbons
A hydrocarbon is an organic compound composed of two elements, hydrogen and carbon. A large…
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Alternatives to Petroleum
In 2008, the top 15 oil consuming nations used nearly 60 million barrels of oil…
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Kinematics of motion of singular surfaces: the speed of displacement
To determine the speed of displacement of a moving singular surface consider a surface as…
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Shock surfaces
It is a rather common phenomenon that abrupt changes occur at the bounding surface of…
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High velocity gas flow in pipes with friction
The following discussion deals with the case of a relative high velocity gas flow through…
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Variation in area for isentropic flow
In many engineering devices used in the natural gas industry, the flow of a gas…
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Critical flow variables
For compressible flows two regions of different behavior can be recognized depending on the Mach…