Abstract
Petrochemicals are used in subsequent chemical and pharmaceutical production. The raw materials come mainly from two sources: natural gas, which provides methane, ethane, propane, butane, and C5+ condensate; and crude oil, which yields methane, saturated C2-C4 hydrocarbons, C2-C4 olefins, and benzenes. Both can produce synthesis gas (syn gas) that is the feed for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to produce long chain alkanes, olefins and alcohols.
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Hsu, C.S., Robinson, P.R. (2019). Petrochemicals. In: Petroleum Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16275-7_16
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