# " REFINERY PROCESSES " HOW AN OIL REFINERY WORKS 1950s SHELL OIL HISTORIC FILM 71862

Made in the 1950s by the Shell Oil Company, "Refinery Process" goes behind the scenes at a huge oil refinery to show how crude oil is transformed into finished products. The film uses a combination of animation and live-action to present the distillation process in an oil refinery, which is crucial for turning crude oil into usable products. Distillation relies on boiling, where liquids turn into vapor at their boiling points and condense back into liquids when cooled. Each liquid has a unique boiling point based on its molecular structure, allowing for the separation of mixed liquids. Crude oil, a mixture of hydrocarbons, is separated into boiling fractions in fractionating columns through crude and vacuum distillation. These fractions are used to produce gasoline, turbine fuel, diesel fuel, and industrial fuel oil. The refinery also produces various other products and raw materials for the chemical industry, continuously developing new petroleum-based products. 00:00 Distillation turns crude oil into usable products. 0:30: The process depends on boiling, where water's temperature rises to its boiling point and then turns into steam. When steam cools below the boiling point, it condenses back into water. 1:07: Each liquid has a unique boiling point. Clear liquid with small molecules boils at 173°F, and dark liquid with larger molecules boils at 363°F. 1:36: The difference in boiling points allows separation of mixed liquids. Heating the mixture vaporizes both liquids,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/71862ShellRefineryProcess)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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