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Petrochemicals and polymers - class-VIII

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Which of the following is used as a solvent in dry cleaning?

  1. Water

  2. Paraffin wax

  3. Petrol

  4. Coal tar


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Dry cleaning means cleaning of tiles without using water or aqueous solvents. Petrol is used as a solvent in dry cleaning because it is highly vapourising organic solvent.

Which among the following is used to prepare detergents and plastics?

  1. Paraffin wax

  2. Bitumen

  3. Petrochemicals

  4. Lubricating oil


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Petrochemicals are the chemical compunds obtained from petroleum. They are used for making detergents, solvents, elastomers, lubricants, gels, polymers, plastics, fibres, adhesives etc

Petroleum is subjected to which of the following process in oil refineries to get petroleum products?

  1. combustion

  2. pyrolysis

  3. fractional distillation

  4. carbinization


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Refining is the process where seperation of various compounds of crude oil occurs. 


Fractional distillation is used for extracting different petroleum products like petrol, diesel, natural gas from petroleum in oil refineries.

Fuel for heavy motor vehicles is:

  1. petrol

  2. diesel

  3. coal tar

  4. kerosene


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Diesel engines have very high compression ratios. That is why it is used as a fuel for heavy motor vehicles.

Which one of the following is not a petroleum product?

  1. Kerosene

  2. Gasoline

  3. Pitch black

  4. Bees wax


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Bees wax is not a petroleum product. It is a natural source of wax produced by honey bees.

Which petroleum product is used in making candles?

  1. Bitumen

  2. Lubricating oil

  3. Paraffin wax

  4. L.P.G


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Candles are made up of Paraffin Wax. It is also a petroleum byproduct obtained during refinery. 

Which is the major step to refine crude oil?

  1. Distillation

  2. Sublimation

  3. Chromatography

  4. All of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The very first and important step in the process of refining of crude oil into petroleum gas is distillation.

Petrol and diesel can be obtained from:

  1. coal tar

  2. coal

  3. petroleum

  4. coal gas


Correct Option: A,C,D
Explanation:

(Petrol and diesel can be obtained from petroleum. coal gas and coal tar are generated from raw coal.)

What is refining of petroleum?

  1. Purifying of petroleum

  2. Heating of petroleum

  3. Separation of petroleum products

  4. Extraction of petroleum


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Refining of petroleum is a process to transform crude oil into useful products like LPG, petrol, gasoline, diesel oil, etc.

Which kind of petroleum products are obtain from refining process? 

  1. Gasoline

  2. Petrol

  3. Jet fuel/ Kerocene

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Petroleum refining process provides different products like gasoline, petrol, diseal, kerosene etc.   

Crude oil is pumped through which kind of pump?

  1. Centrifugal

  2. Gear

  3. Skrew

  4. Reciprocating


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Centrifugal pump is a kind of pump in which liquids are sucked from the earth crust by applying force.

Identify the full form of the CDU.

  1. Central Distillation Unit

  2. Center of Distillation Unit

  3. Crude Oil Distillation Unit

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Petroleum crude oils are converted into different petroleum products in the big refineries. This big refineries contain very important unit called as CDU that is crude oil distillation unit.

Petroleum refining process is used to convert _________________.

  1. crude oil into liquefied petroleum gas

  2. crude gas into crude gas

  3. liquefied petroleum gas into crude oil

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Petroleum is the natural fuel obtain from the seas. In the refining process crude petroleum is converted into crude oil into liquefied petroleum gas.

Petroleum is an important source for all of the following except:

  1. paraffin wax

  2. octane

  3. ethylene

  4. celluose


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Cellulose is derived from D-Glucose units, which condense through β(1→4)-glycosidic bonds. Petroleum is a source for lubricating oil, paraffin wax and other hydrocarbons.

The other name of petrol is ____________.

  1. gasolime

  2. gasoline

  3. jet fuel

  4. heavy fuel


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Petrol is a very important product obtained from crude oil after distillation. Petrol is used as measure source of fuel in vehicles, its other name is gasoline.


Hence, the correct option is $B$

Important constituents of petroleum is/are: 

  1. LPG

  2. petrol

  3. kerosene

  4. all of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

LPG, butane , petrol, jet fuel, Kerosene, fuel oil, diesel are common fractions of petroleum used as a fuel.

Why liquefied petroleum gas is considered as light distill product of crude oil?

  1. It's weight is less

  2. It is easy to transport

  3. It is a gas which is easy to compress and filled in cylinder

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Liquefied petroleum gas is called as light distillate product because it contains less quantity of carbon and hydrogen. Hence it is light.

Which one of the following material is used for making shoe polish?

  1. Paraffin wax

  2. Petrol.

  3. Diesel

  4. Lubricating oil


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Paraffin wax is used for making shoe polish.

Which of the following is not a petroleum product ?

  1. Bees wax

  2. Paraffin wax

  3. Candle wax

  4. Naphtha


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Petroleum by-products are :
LPG, gasoline, Naptha, fuel oil, paraffin wax, candle wax, lubricants etc.

But Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis. It is mainly esters of fatty acids and various long-chain alcohols

The crude oil extracted from the earth is separated into its constituents by a process called .....................

  1. disintegration distillation

  2. compound distillation

  3. destructive distillation

  4. fractional distillation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The constituents of crude oil have a very less difference in their boiling point so they are separated by fractional distillation process.

 _________ Is in solid at room temperature 

  1. Fluorine

  2. Iodine

  3. Chlorine

  4. Bromine


Correct Option: C
Thermal decomposition of alkanes in the absence of air is called
  1. Cracking

  2. Oxidation

  3. Combustion

  4. Hydrogenation


Correct Option: A

Which amongst the following is not free state of carbon?

  1. Diamond

  2. Graphite

  3. Coke

  4. Petrol


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Diamond,graphite and coke exists in free state of carbon where as the petroleum is the mixture of hydrocarbons where carbon and hydrogen are present.So the substance which is not available in free state is petrol.
Hence option D is correct.

Liquid hydrocarbons can be converted to a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons by :

  1. Oxidation

  2. Cracking

  3. Distillation

  4. Hydrolysis


Correct Option: B

Which type of solution is petrol?

  1. liquid-liquid

  2. liquid-solid

  3. liquid-gas

  4. Sold-liquid


Correct Option: C

During fractional distillation, the crude petroleum is heated to a temperature of about:

  1. $600^{\circ} C$

  2. $400$ to $ 500^{\circ}C$

  3. $200^{\circ}C$

  4. $100^{\circ}C$


Correct Option: B

Lead particles are released into the air by the burning of ___________.

  1. coal in thermal power stations

  2. petrol in automobiles

  3. biomass in chullahs

  4. LPG for cooking


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Leaded petrol used to be a source of high levels of lead in the air of major cities. Significant reductions in the levels of air-borne lead were achieved over recent years as the result of air pollution legislation introduced to remove lead from petrol.

Match column 'A' with 'B'

'A' Process 'B' Product
a. Carbonisation 1. Coke
b. Destructive disllation 2. Coal
c. Cracking 3. Petroleum
d. Refinig 4. Hydrocarbons
  1. a-l, b-2, c-3, d-4

  2. a-2, b-l, c-4, d-3

  3. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-l

  4. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-l


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 A. Carbonisation is applied to the pyrolysis of coal to produce coke.

 B. Cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerosene or long chain hydrocarbon are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors.
C. Refining is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas.
D. In the destructive distillation of powdered coal, heated coal turns to coke. 

What is the source of sulphur dioxide emissions?

  1. Agricultural forms

  2. Petroleum refineries

  3. Hydroelectric power stations

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sulphur dioxide emissions are given out by those industries which refine the sulphur containing products like petroleum refineries which employ catalytic processes to remove the sulphur from the petrol called as desulphurization which gives immense sulphur in the atmosphere as pollutant.

Producer gas is a mixture of:

  1. $CO\, and\, H _2$

  2. $CO\, and\, N _2$

  3. $SO _2\, and\, H _2$

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A,B
Explanation:
Producer gas is a mixture of flammable gases and non-flammable gases. Flammable gases are carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Non-flammable gases are mainly nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
Producer gas has lower heating value than the other gaseous fuels. It is used mainly as a fuel in large industrial furnace.

Match the following.

Column II Column II
1. Paraffin wax (p) Domestic fuel
2. Petrol (q) Used for manufacturing steel
3. LPG (r) Candles
4. Coke (s) Aviation Fuel
  1. 1 - (p); 2 - (q); 3 - (r); 4 - (s)

  2. 1 - (q); 2 - (p); 3 - (r); 4 - (s)

  3. 1 - (s); 2 - (r); 3 - (p); 4 - (q)

  4. 1 - (r); 2 - (s); 3 - (p); 4 - (q)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  1. Paraffin wax is used to make candles.
    2. Aviation fuel is a specialized type of petroleum-based fuel used to power aircraft.
    3. LPG is the liquefied petroleum gas used as domestic fuel.
    4. Coke is used to make steel.

Which of the following is used as an anti -knocking compound?

  1. TEL

  2. $C _2H _5OH$

  3. Glyoxal

  4. Freon


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

An anti-knocking agent is the substance which is used to reduce the engine knocking. It increases the octane number of the fuel. It helps in auto-ignition by raising the temperature and pressure. TEL is tetraethyl Lead which is used as an Anti-Knocking compound.

The first step in refining petroleum is:

  1. fractional distillation

  2. liquation

  3. concentration

  4. filtration


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The very first step in the refining of petroleum oil is Fractional distillation i.e, the fractionation of crude oil in atmospheric vacuum distillation towers. 

The first process in a petroleum refinery is known as distillation. In this process, crude oil is heated and filled into a distillation column.

Which of the following is not obtained on fractional distillation of petroleum?

  1. Paraffin wax

  2. Asphalt

  3. Coal gas

  4. Petroleum gas


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Fractional distillation of petroleum gives paraffin wax, asphalt, crude oil. While fractional distillation of coal gives coal gas.

All are the mixtures of various organic compounds except:

  1. petrol/diesel

  2. octane

  3. vaseline

  4. kerosene


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

All of the given substances are mixtures of various organic compounds except octane. Because octane is a pure saturated hydrocarbon containing 8 carbon atoms.

Kerosene oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons which contains the number of carbon atoms is:

  1. $C _6$ to $C _{10}$

  2. $C _8$ to $C _{12}$

  3. $C _{11}$ to $C _{16}$

  4. $C _{18}$ to $C _{22}$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Kerosene is a mixture of hydrocarbons. The chemical composition depends on its source of isolation, usually, it consists of about 10 different hydrocarbons, each containing 11 to 16 carbon atoms per molecule. 

The main constituents are saturated straight-chain and branched-chain hydrocarbons which are also called as paraffin, as well as ring-shaped cycloparaffins which are also known as naphthenes. Kerosene is less volatile liquid than gasoline.

Paraffin wax is used for making:

  1. vaselines

  2. candles

  3. greases

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Paraffin wax is derived from petroleum,coal that consist of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules between 20-40 carbon atoms. Common applications of paraffin include lubrication,candles,electrical insulation. It is insoluble in water but soluble in ether,alcohol or benzene.

Identify the odd one out from the following.

  1. diesel

  2. kerosene

  3. methanol

  4. petrol


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Methanol is the odd one because the rest are fractions of petroleum.

The fraction of petroleum used as jet fuel is:

  1. petrol

  2. kerosene

  3. diesel

  4. alcohol


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jet fuel is a clear to straw colored fuel based on either an unleaded kerosene or a naphtha kerosene blend. It is similar to diesel fuel and can be used in either compression ignition engines or turbine engines.

Identify the odd one out from the following.

  1. crude oil

  2. furnace oil

  3. mineral oil

  4. rock oil


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Furnace oil is odd because the rest are various names of petroleum.

First petroleum industry was began in which country?

  1. India

  2. United states

  3. Brazil

  4. Russsia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

Statement $I$: Refining of petroleum requires the separation of its components into different fractions.
Statement $II$: The hydrocarbon chains that makeup petroleum have the same basic carbon chain (same number of $C$ in the parent).

  1. Statement $I$ is true and Statement $II$ is false

  2. Statement $I$ is false and Statement $II$ is true

  3. Statement $I$ and $II$ are false

  4. Statement $I$ and $II$ both are true and Statement $II$ is correct explanation of Statement $I$

  5. Statement $I$ and $II$ both are true and Statement $II$ is not a correct explanation of Statement $I$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Refining of petroleum requires the separation of its components into different fractions. The hydrocarbon chains that make up petroleum have the different basic carbon chain (different number of $Cs$ in the parent).
Hence, the statement $I$ is true but statement $II$ is false.

Some modern petroleum refineries process as much as _______ barrels (127,000 to 143,000 cubic meters) per day of crude oil.

  1. 800,000 to 900,000

  2. 800,000 to 2900,000

  3. 1800,000 to 900,000

  4. 800,000 to 900,0000


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Now a days due to development of different technological processes modern petroleum refineries process as much as 800,000 to 900,000 barrels (127,000 to 143,000 cubic meters) per day of crude oil.


Hence the correct option is A.

Petroleum is an important source for all of the following except:

  1. propane

  2. rubber

  3. kerosene

  4. gasoline


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Rubber is the polymer which is obtained from rubber tree which is not isolated during oil  and petroleum refining.So Petroleum is an important source for all of the following except rubber where as propane,kerosene and gasoline obtained during refining of petroleum.
Hence option B is correct.

In the refining of petroleum, in a fractionating column, the principle use is ________.

  1. difference in melting points

  2. difference in boling points

  3. diffrence in freezing points

  4. difference in densities


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A fractional column is an essential item used in the distillation of liquid mixtures so as to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on the differences in volatilities. Industrial fractionating columns have outlets at intervals up the column so that multiple products having different boiling ranges may be withdrawn from a column distilling a multi-component feed stream. The lightest products with the lowest boiling points exit from the top of the columns and the heaviest products with the highest boiling points exit from the bottom.

Tetraethyl lead is a:

  1. solvent

  2. petroleum additive

  3. oxidising agent

  4. fire extinguisher


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tetraethyl lead $(CH _3CH _2) _4 Pb$ is a petroleum additive. TEL is produced by reacting chloroethane with a sodium–lead alloy:
 $ 4 NaPb + 4 CH _3CH _2Cl\rightarrow (CH _3CH _2) _4Pb + 4NaCl + 3Pb$
The product is recovered by steam distillation, leaving a sludge of lead and sodium chloride. TEL is a viscous colorless liquid. Because TEL is charge neutral and contains an exterior of alkyl groups, it is highly lipophilic and soluble in petrol.

Which one of these are not the by-products obtained by processing petroleum in petrochemical industries?

  1. Vaseline

  2. Fertiliser

  3. Synthetic rubber

  4. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

By-products obtained from processing petroleum in industries are fertilisers, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibres, medicines, vaseline, lubricants, wax, soap and cosmetics.

Petroleum gas mainly consists of:

  1. methene, ethene, propane and butene.

  2. methane, ethane, propane and hexane.

  3. methane, ethane, propane and butane.

  4. methane and butane.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG (also called Autogas) consists mainly of propane, propylene, butane, and butylene in various mixtures.It is produced as a by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining. The components of LPG are gases and will evaporate at normal temperatures and pressures, as a result it is stored in pressurised steel bottles.  Unlike natural gas, LPG is heavier than air, and thus will flow along floors and tend to settle in low spots, such as basements.Such accumulations can cause explosion hazards.

The temperature range during which petrol (gasoline) is obtained:

  1. $40^oC$ to $200^oC$

  2. $40^oC$ to $80^oC$

  3. $40^oC$ to $100 ^oC$

  4. $30^oC$ to $200 ^oC$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The most common method of refining crude is the process of fractional distillation. This involves heating crude oil to about 350 degrees Celsius,to turn it into a mixture of gases. These are piped into a tall cylinder, known as a fractional tower. The higher the gas rises in the tower, the lower the temperature becomes. Petrol or gasoline, condenses out at around 110 degrees celsius, while petroleum gas is drawn off at the top. The distilled liquid from each level contains a mixture of alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic hydrocarbons with similar properties, and requires further refinement and processing to select specific molecules. A process called cracking is used to produce more of the lower molecular weight hydrocarbons from higher ones.

The proportion of petrol in petroleum is:

  1. about 55%

  2. about 25%

  3. about 35%

  4. about 45%


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The percentage of compounds in petroleum are

Petrol $\Rightarrow 45$%
Aromatics $\Rightarrow 15$%
Napthalenes $\Rightarrow 30$%
Asphaltics $\Rightarrow 10$%

Petroleum is mixture of:

  1. petrol

  2. petroleum gas

  3. diesel

  4. all of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Petroleum is a mixture of kerosene, home heating oil, petrol, petroleum gas, diesel fuel, and gasoline. Petroleum products are complex mixtures derived from crude oil and have similar chemical and physical properties.

What is a place where various fractions of petroleum are separated?
  1. Fineery

  2. Refinery

  3. Rifenery

  4. Refinyer


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Refinery is a place where various fractions of petroleum are separated.

Petrol for aviation purposes must contain?

  1. Straight chain hydrocarbons

  2. Aromatic hydrocarbons

  3. Olefinic hydrocarbons

  4. Highly branched chain paraffins


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The production of higher molecular weight branched chain paraffins having valuable antiknock properties and, therefore, suitable for use in aviation fuels is of considerable importance in the petroleum industry.

Which component, obtained from the refining of petroleum, is used as a solvent in petrochemicals.

  1. Tar

  2. Kerosene

  3. Naphthalene

  4. Petroleum coal


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Naphthalene (an aromatic hydrocarbon) is obtained from the refining of petroleum. It is used as a solvent in petrochemicals. Naphthalene is non polar solvent and is used to dissolve non polar compounds.

Petroleum refineries remove chemical compounds that contain sulphur in order to:

  1. prevent pollution of the air by sulphur

  2. make pure, white petrol

  3. increase the mileage of petrol

  4. use the sulphur to make other compounds cheaply


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Air is polluted by sulphur by converting into sulphur dioxide. So, petroleum refineries remove chemical compounds that contain sulphur.

Paraffin is a by-product of?

  1. Cottage industries involving bee-keeping

  2. Processing of agricultural wastes

  3. Petroleum refining

  4. Leather industry


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Paraffin, a white or colourless, tasteless, odourless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum in Petroleum Refining.

Which of the following is obtained on fractional distillation of petroleum ?

  1. Paraffin wax

  2. Asphalt

  3. Petroleum gas

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Paraffin wax, Petroleum gas and Asphalt are the different constituents of petroleum which  vapourise at different temperature's in the fractional distillation of petroleum. 

Petrol is a mixture of hydrocarbons with ______ carbon atoms.

  1. 2 to 5

  2. 5 to 9

  3. 5 to 7

  4. 4 to 6


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Petroleum is a very complex mixture of hydrocarbons-compounds that consist of carbon and hydrogen only. Small amounts of other organic compounds containing oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other elements are also present.
  • Petroleum is a mixture of a very large number of different hydrocarbons; the most commonly found molecules are alkanes (paraffin), cycloalkanes (naphthenes), aromatic hydrocarbons, or more complicated chemicals like asphaltenes.
  • This mixture of hydrocarbons generally has 5 to 9 carbon atoms.
  • Hence option B is a correct answer.

Gasoline is a mixture of?

  1. $C _3 - C _5$ alkanes

  2. $C _{15} - H _{20}$ alkanes

  3. $C _{11} - C _{15}$ alkanes

  4. $C _7 - C _9 $ alkanes


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Gasoline is a refined product of petroleum and is comprised mainly of hydrocarbons, ranging from those conatining 7 carbon atoms  to those containing 9 carbon atoms. 

The order of appearance of the following with rising temperature during the refining of crude oil is?

  1. Kerosene oil , gasoline, diesel

  2. Diesel, gasoline, kerosene oil

  3. Gasoline, diesel, kerosene oil

  4. Gasoline, kerosene oil, diesel


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

During refining of crude oil, different products are recovered according to the different boiling ranges. The order of boiling point of the given products is: Gasoline< kerosene< diesel. Therefore they are obtained in the sequence;Gasoline, kerosene ,diesel.

The final product in the following reaction can be used as, $4CH _3-CH _2-Cl+4Na+Pb \rightarrow$

  1. anaesthatic

  2. narcotics

  3. analgesic

  4. antiknocking agent


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • The final product of this reaction is $(CH _3CH _2) _4Pb$ [tetraethyl lead (TEL)].
$4CH _3-CH _2-Cl + 4Na + Pb \rightarrow (CH _3CH _2) _4Pb$
It is also used as an antiknocking agent in fuels for automobiles.

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