Difference Between Heptane And Isooctane

I. Gasoline Gasoline is a derivative of petroleum when it is refined. It is made out of hydrocarbons in liquid form that is very flammable. The main use of gasoline is to be a fuel source for combustion engines. To obtain gasoline from petroleum fractional distillation is used where in the different type of hydrocarbons from petroleum, which has different boiling points is heat at different temperature. The different hydrocarbons then condense to liquid. The main ingredients of gasoline are heptane (C7H16) and isooctane (C8H18). The heptane and isooctane undergoes cracking and polymerization. In the process of cracking is when large hydrocarbons break down to smaller hydrocarbons while the process of polymerization is when small hydrocarbons

The first stage is exploration; in exploration geologist normally find usable area where there is a deposit of fossil. The most common use by geologist is seismic survey. In seismic survey, a seismometer is used to emit sound waves from the surface until it reaches it desired target, after the sound waves bounces back the surface and it is analyzed by a computer and then makes a detail 3D image of the ground. After having a 3D image of the ground and finding suitable oil reserve the next step is setting up a drilling well. A drilling well, which is a pulley system, drills from the surface until it reaches the fossil fuel deposit from the ground. After drilling, the drilling well is then removed and replaced by a pump jack. A pump is used to pump the oil from the ground to the surface. A pump jack consists of a crank rod, pitman arm, walking beam, horse head, bridle, polished rod and sucker rod. Due circular momentum it forces the crank rod to rotate back and forth as it is pulled by the pitman arm, then the bridle moves up and down where the oil it pump up to the surface due to the momentum of the sucker

The Philippines is a very oil dependent country, which makes the prices of petroleum products very high. In the 1996, members of congress passed Republic Act No 8180 knows as the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1996, which aims to deregulate the oil industry. After a year, RA 8180 was then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court due the violation of anti trust laws. In 1998, a revised law was passed to compensate for RA 8180. Republic Act No 8479 replaced RA 8180, which aims to make the oil industry a competitive and free market. Under provision of RA 8479 it prohibits the Philippine government to meddle with any oil industry business. It also assigns the Department of Energy (DOE) as the implementing agency and to collect 3% tariff on oils products. In 1949 the congress passes Republic Act No 387 known as the Petroleum Act of 1949. In the Republic Act, it gives the Philippine Government ownership to all the oil reserves within the boundary of the Philippines and to promote the exploration of petroleum in the Philippines. Another provision is that the government has the right to select concessionaires that will use oil reserves, which in turn will pay royalty to the Philippine