"Oil products three brothers see fire impatient. Cars, ships and planes all rely on them to travel thousands of miles. "

This is gasoline, kerosene and diesel. These are the three leading figures in the petroleum product family. Let's talk about this "three spicy brothers" first.

Oil is transported to the refinery, where it is distilled, refined, blended and added with various additives. The largest oil products are gasoline, kerosene and diesel, which are the most common petroleum products.

Let's take a look at kerosene, the second child who first appeared on the historical stage. In 33 1 year BC, there was a record of using oil lamps in Babylon-"Cirak lamp". 1745, Ukhtar people in Russia obtained kerosene for lighting by distilling oil. 65438+ In the early 1980s, Aragon, a Frenchman, invented the kerosene lamp, which was hailed as "the light of liberation from the dark Middle Ages to modern civilization". During the 65438-60s, in a place called Youxi in the northwest of Pennsylvania, Americans explored the first oil well in the world history-Dirac oil well by drilling salt wells by the ancients in China. At first, people didn't make full use of oil to process many products until the 1980s of 19, when John? Kerosene extracted from oil by Rockefeller's oil empire, Standard Oil Company, replaced butter, whale oil and soybean oil and became people's favorite lighting fuel.

In old China, the oil industry was very backward. The kerosene used by people is imported from abroad, and the people call it "foreign oil". After the founding of New China, China petroleum people successively developed Karamay, Daqing and other major oil fields, and built refineries in Yumen, Lanzhou and Karamay, which got rid of the history of using "foreign oil" in one fell swoop, and kerosene officially became a new member of the new China petroleum product family.

In recent decades, jet engines have been widely used in space shuttles. Jet planes use aviation kerosene, which is now called jet fuel. You see, now the second child of our petroleum product family mainly works in the field of "flying".

Let's talk about the eldest of the three brothers-gasoline. When the second child brought light to thousands of families in the late19th century, old gasoline and diesel oil were worthless as by-products of kerosene distillation. At the beginning of the 20th century, when Edison invented the electric light, the oil industry lost the main kerosene market at that time, and the automobile invented by Ford created new vitality for the oil industry. Gasoline-driven cars have become a giant wheel to promote the development of petroleum industry in human history.