{"id":289,"date":"2023-06-21T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:42:56","slug":"who-invented-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented Gasoline?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Who invented gasoline?<\/strong>\u00a0Gasoline was not invented, but is a by-product of the oil industry, with kerosene being the main product. Gasoline is produced by distillation, that is, the separation of the most volatile and valuable fractions of crude oil. However, what was invented were the numerous processes and agents necessary to improve the quality of gasoline to make it a higher quality product.<\/span><\/p>\n When the car was on its way to becoming the primary form of transportation, the need for new fuels arose. In the 19th century, coal, gas, camphene, and kerosene were used as fuels and in lamps. However, automobile engines needed fuels that required the use of oil as a raw material. However, refineries were unable to convert crude to gasoline quickly enough to supply cars leaving the assembly lines.<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, there was a need to improve the fuel refining process to avoid detonation in the engines and increase their efficiency. Especially in the case of the new high compression engines that were being designed.<\/span><\/p>\n The process that was invented to improve the production of gasoline from crude oil was known as cracking or cracking. In oil refining, cracking is a process by which heavy hydrocarbon molecules break down into lighter molecules through heat, pressure, and sometimes the use of catalysts.<\/span><\/p>\n Cracking is the main process used for the commercial production of gasoline. Thus, in 1913 William Merriam Burton invented thermal cracking, a process that used heat and high pressures.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, catalytic cracking ended up replacing thermal cracking in the production of gasoline. Catalytic cracking consists of the application of catalysts that generate chemical reactions, thus producing more gasoline. This process was invented by Eugene Houdry in 1937.<\/span><\/p>\n Other methods were used to improve the quality of gasoline and increase its supply, including:<\/span><\/p>\n Polymerization: Converts gaseous olefins, such as propylene and butylene, into larger molecules close to gasoline.<\/span> Nineteenth-century automobile fuels were coal tar distillates and the lightest fractions of crude oil distillation.<\/span> Who invented gasoline?\u00a0Gasoline was not invented, but is a by-product of the oil industry, with kerosene being the main product. Gasoline is produced by distillation, that is, the separation of the most volatile and valuable fractions of crude oil. However, what was invented were the numerous processes and agents necessary to improve the quality of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Car<\/span><\/h2>\n
Cracking<\/span><\/h2>\n
Cracking Term \u2013 William Merriam Burton<\/span><\/h2>\n
Catalytic Cracking<\/span><\/h2>\n
Additional Processes<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nAlkylation: a process that involves combining an olefin and paraffin, such as isobutane.<\/span>
\nIsomerization: the conversion of straight-chain hydrocarbons to branched-chain hydrocarbons.<\/span>
\nReformed uses heat or a catalyst to regroup the molecular structure.<\/span><\/p>\nGasoline Timeline & Fuel Improvements<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nOn September 5, 1885, Sylvanus Bowser manufactured the first fuel pump in Fort Wayne, Indiana for Jake Gumper, also from Fort Wayne. This fuel nozzle had non-return valves, wooden pistons, and a capacity of one barrel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nIn the 1910s, the storage of gasoline on residential properties was prohibited by law.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nBetween 1970 and 1990 lead was discontinued.<\/span><\/li>\n