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Name the hydrocarbon having the poorest oxidation stability.

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Hydrogen content in petroleum products varies from 12 to 15% (by weight). As a result the difference between gross and net heating value of petroleum fuels varies in the range of __________ kcal/kg.

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Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a high octane (octane no. = 115) gasoline blending component is produced by the simple additive reaction of isobutylene with

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Catalytic desulphurisation process used for sweetening of straight run gasoline and kerosene uses __________ as catalyst.

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Pick out the undesirable property for a solvent meant for dewaxing of lube oil.

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Pick out the wrong statement.

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Catalyst used in isomerisation process is

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Paraffin base crude oil as compared to asphalt base crude gives

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Straight run petrol as compared to methyl/ethyl alcohol has

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Feed for reforming is generally

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Feedstock for polymerisation is

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The first crude oil refinery of India is located at

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High aniline point of a petrofuel (say diesel) indicates that

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Aniline point of high speed diesel may be about __________ °C.

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In a refinery petroleum crude is fractionated into gas fraction, light ends, intermediate distillates, heavy distillates, residues and by products. The group of products including gas oil, diesel oil and heavy fuel oil belongs to the fraction

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Cetane number of diesel used in trucks may be about

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Higher boiling fractions like atmospheric residue is distilled under vacuum at low temperature because at high temperature, there is a tendency of the predominance of

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Doctor's solution used for sweetening of petroleum products is

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Phenols are added in gasoline to

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The octane number of aviation gasoline may be

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