Gasoline, kerosene, diesel - who are the three hot brothers?

There is such a riddle:

"The three petroleum product brothers are quick-tempered when they see fire. Cars, ships and airplanes rely on them to travel thousands of miles."

These are the three fuels: gasoline, kerosene and diesel. These are the three leading figures in the petroleum products family. Let’s talk about these “three hot brothers” first.

Petroleum is transported into the refinery. After distillation, refining, blending and adding various additives, the first and largest oil products obtained are the "three brothers" of gasoline, kerosene and diesel, which are the most common ones. Petroleum products.

Let’s first take a look at the second oldest oil on the stage of history - kerosene. There are records of the use of petroleum lighting lamps - "Zirak lamps" in ancient Babylon in 331 BC. In 1745, the Ukhta people in Russia obtained kerosene for lighting by distilling petroleum. In the early 1880s, the Frenchman Aragon invented the kerosene lamp, which was praised as "the light of human liberation from the dark Middle Ages to modern civilization." In the 1860s, in a place called "Oil Creek" in northwestern Pennsylvania, Americans used the ancient Chinese method of drilling salt wells to explore the first oil well in the history of the world, the Dirac Oil Well. At first, people did not make full use of petroleum to process many products. It was not until the 1880s that John Rockefeller's petroleum empire, Standard Oil Company, refined kerosene from petroleum to replace beef tallow, whale oil, and soybean oil and became people's most popular product. Favorite lighting fuel.

The oil industry in old China was very backward. The kerosene used by people was imported from foreign countries, and the common people called it "foreign oil". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chinese oilmen successively developed large oil fields such as Karamay and Daqing, and built refineries in Yumen, Lanzhou, and Karamay. They got rid of the history of using "foreign oil" in one fell swoop. Kerosene also officially became a member of the petroleum product family of New China. New members.

In recent decades, jet engines have been increasingly used in aerospace aircraft. Jet aircraft use aviation kerosene, now called jet fuel. Look, now the second eldest son of our petroleum products family is mainly working in "Feitian".

Let’s talk about the boss of the three brothers - gasoline. When Lao Er brought light to millions of households in the late 19th century, Lao Da gasoline and Lao San diesel were worthless as by-products of distilled kerosene. At the beginning of the 20th century, just as Edison's invention of the electric light caused the oil industry to lose its main kerosene market, Ford's invention of the automobile created new vitality for the oil industry. The use of gasoline to drive automobiles has become a giant wheel in human history that drives the development of the petroleum industry.