18-07-2023, 08:54 AM
I'm not sure at what temperature boiling would start either.
I read that petrol has a boiling point range from about 35-70 degrees C - and somewhere else that petrol 'starts to boil at about 50 degrees C' - so the lighter fractions might start gassing off before the heavier ones, which could lead to vapour lock in the fuel lines?
(Isn't this how the different fractions are separated when crude oil is being processed at the refinery - or is there more to it? Any chemical engineers care to comment?)
I read that petrol has a boiling point range from about 35-70 degrees C - and somewhere else that petrol 'starts to boil at about 50 degrees C' - so the lighter fractions might start gassing off before the heavier ones, which could lead to vapour lock in the fuel lines?
(Isn't this how the different fractions are separated when crude oil is being processed at the refinery - or is there more to it? Any chemical engineers care to comment?)