The narration, the visuals and the playing cards illustration made this video worth at least 1 year courses in petrochemical engineering. The traditional 4-year college curriculum for most majors needs a reform to make learning more accessible, straightforward and affordable. "Cut the rope!"
With the internet these days. Who need collage or universities any more. The only thing collage and universities are good for now days is to get a piece of paper and that's it. There was once a time when getting a higher education actually meant something. Not anymore.
I was awarded my Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in 1980. I wish this video (okay, film) had been shown in my Unit Operations class. It is excellent!
It seems there was a golden era of teaching in the 1950s (maybe ushered in by Richard Feynman) to explain things with simple words and strong visuals. Teaching you core concepts instead of vocabulary.
Out of all the animations ive seen explaining this process, i never could fathom any of it, until this! That was an amazing learning movie, they did a great job-
This a course that take years of knowledge is explained in effective way in very short. Great job guys, for sharing your knowledge and making the world better.
I must have seen this film at least five times in grades 6 through 9 in the late 70s & early 80s. I can't get the image of the rising playing cards out of my head. That's pretty much what I have remembered about this film for the last few decades.
What a great film. I studied chemical engineering when I was in school. I feel like if they showed us this video - a lot of the concepts would have been really simple to understand the first time around. Thanks for posting.
I think this film was designed for technicians, logistics personnel, and contract tradesmen. Not four year college bound engineering students. Community college and vocational schools teach way less theory than state college, so industry has to "help" their rookies with this technical documentary.
It worth to watch this video before starting to learn processes in oil refinery. Every point is explained very well and easy to understand. The language used is also friendly even for non-English-speakers. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I'm native Spanish speaker but the explanation was friendly for people with Intermediate English skills (I believe even for Begginer English people)
Thank you Periscope for making this available. It's a shame that all of the modern renditions are devoid of specifics. Nowadays, profit comes before pursuit of knowledge any day. Hopefully one day films like these begin being made again in our country.
The 1950s was a marvelous time for educational films produced by Shell Oil and Bell Telephone with its Bell Science series (hosted by Frank Baxter); as I vividly recall as a kid in the mid-1960s watching such films in classes at school (US).
Excellent video. Very accurate. Made an old distillation column operator smile. You should definitely watch this video before reading any distillation book written by Henry Kister.
That process is called fractional distillation or fractionation. Crude oil is heated and then passes through a fractionation column. The products of the fractionation process depends on the temperature where that component starts to separate from the crude oil (Lowest temperature: top). To give a few examples, the precursor for aviation gasoline and jet fuel comes from the distillate that comes from the top of the fractionating column. Asphalt and paraffin wax comes from the bottom part of the column.
Best explanation I've ever seen! Makes it very clear. Now I'm curious what's changed in the last 60-70 years... I also found this interesting because living in the SF Bay Area, there are a couple refineries around the bay (I know most people don't think of San Francisco and Big Oil in the same sentence , but this IS where Standard Oil got started, and is now called Chevron). So, I've driven past these oil tank farm and refineries since I was born, and was alway curious about what was going on.
That Was AHH-Mayzing! I knew very little detail if any about this process other than crude oil is just distilled into gasoline in a process similar to distillation of pure alcohol into potable beverage alcohol only instead of discarding a 3rd of it , it's all kept and has different purposes This was a huge eye opener Thank you for posting !
Like other commenters have said, very clear and concise explanation of the process. I wonder if it was made later than the 50s, though; the style and presentation seem a little more informal, and the music at 20:06 is "Trade and Commerce" by Johnny Pearson from a 1968 KPM LP "Orchestral Kaleidoscope".
Very thorough video that explains various stages in the refining processes... I would imagine by now, even more extensive molecular change processes have been introduced and developed...
Michael Lang they do explode when not maintained or when knowledge or safety factors is missing. they haven't aloud any. refinerys to be built in the US in over 50 years I believe
That's what I was thinking. All that heat with many tonnes of volatile flammable liquids and gases. It's amazing. Those refineries must be very well managed.
wow , Golden . How incredible the science were in that days ! after 90 the distribution of knowledge stopped and this is a proper example ! really love this Documentary ! God Bless ! knowledge is power ! after two days I have an Interview with my country's "Eastern Refinery" .the salary is 69US$ per month . the money is okay in a 3rd world country like Bangladesh . I finished all Academic course possible in Bangladesh and i'm 28 years Old unemployed. pray for me
I worked in an oil refinery 33 years..hell of a lot of climbing ladders..hauling on huge valve...dangerous conditions...hydroflouric acid..ammonia..chlorine...silicate..flue gas..fuel gas..sampling.. rounds...catastrophic failures of pumps..exchangers..fires..clearing out units for turn arounds...very difficult work..what a life.. death from nitrogen..h2s. Seen it all..smh
Ilived in south east texas for a long time and I moved away. I work at a paper mill now and paper mills are dangerous but I always tell my co workers they don't understand: When something happens with a refinery the whole town has to evacuate.
The Shell plant in La Porte, TX looks like it's scheduled for a LOPC sometime soon... They all look awful nowadays though haha; no reason to keep them shiny if they'll be retired by the end of the century.
@Zach Alexander I work at Shell Deer Park and I guarantee they are not shutting down anytime soon. Although you are correct these plants are dulapidated, neglected, and falling apart as we speak. I was wondering if this was actually the cat cracker thats out here now haha. It's all rust now. I've been to the top of that and the crude oil tower. They're tall.
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I was hoping that they would include the coker in the explanation. That is the process where they take the heaviest material out of the crude oil, and make coke, which is used for industrial processes, as well as making anodes for aluminum production.
2chemical engineers (nephew&grand nephew)in my family. I live close to 2 oil refineries .l worked for Spoornet and my job took me to both refineries. Amazing experience. If one stands in front of the refineries it's sound is strange and eerie.
My father retired from there, thankfully before Brandon got in office. My dad was a supervisor for 36 years. He use to call it prison because it was 12 hour shifts
16:03 The danger is that if somehow, the catalyst drains out from the reactor when its shut off the hydrocarbons can leak into the regenerator where there is oxygen and can cause massive explosions. Proper maintence of the valves can prevent this.
You mean proper inspection of said valves there’s no set replacement interval on this equipment every refinery has a different design and different design limitations that play into factoring a lifespan for the equipment that’s why Inspections on equipment like this are crucial
why do old videos explain things so well and detailed? i watched dozens of modern videos that just shove a vague diagram at you and your left wondering how the distillation actually happens with liquids and gasses separating so neatly. this video goes into detail and treats you like your intelligent.
Can you imagine the guys who figured all this stuff out? Not to mention building the equipment to do it. Did you know that it was us Americans who not only figured out how to drill for oil, but came up with the equipment to do so? NOT the Brits, Arabs, Iranians, Russians, Chinese or French, but Americans!
Figuring the stuff out is the easy part. You can probably do it with a small amount and regular chemistry glassware. The hard part comes when you want to make it on an industrial scale with efficiency. That's why chemical engineers and petroleum engineers make more money than chemists.
Yes. The process of the knowledge of crude oil to the practice of the refining process of today is mind boggling. A lot of innovative, motivated, and brilliant minds behind it.
Ahh, yes, the - not so - good old times! The retro-grade of this movie, the music, the theatrical speaker, the stop-motion, all is quite endearing. And as things sometimes go, it happened in the last weeks that I wrote a few articles about procedures in the Dangote refinery close to Lagos (for a knowledge platform I am not allowed to mention here) - and I could not have explained it better. I missed the term "naphtha" though, nowadays you do not get "straight run gasoline" from a distilling unit just like that. For explaining the reforming process I would have said a few words about "octane value" and what it means, otherwise it remains pointless - yet the RON became relevant ca. 15 years after this movie was made, so it is a surprise it was mentioned at all. All in all I agree with other comments: the creators obviously knew their stuff and really really were trying to pass on their knowledge. The stop-motion animation is hopelessly antiquated - and then again: the persons who put these molecule models together (in weeks of work for a few seconds of film) knew what these models actually mean, you can see the toluene molecules and xylene molecules. Modern CGI looks more slick of course, but you can tell often, that their makers do NOT know basic physics. And that the script department and the animation department live different lives and do NOT support each other. Tip to the hat. Despite the retro-vibe this 70-year-old film can be shown to anyone starting to work at a refinery today. It deserves more likes.
Except it is not 70 years old. As others have pointed out, there is a graphic of a late 1960s car at 11:22 in the section discussing how straight run gasoline does not have sufficient octane rating for a modern car.
Out of all the 3D animated slop explaining refining on TH-cam, this by far the most informative and easy to understand.
The narration, the visuals and the playing cards illustration made this video worth at least 1 year courses in petrochemical engineering. The traditional 4-year college curriculum for most majors needs a reform to make learning more accessible, straightforward and affordable. "Cut the rope!"
With the internet these days. Who need collage or universities any more. The only thing collage and universities are good for now days is to get a piece of paper and that's it. There was once a time when getting a higher education actually meant something. Not anymore.
@@appliedengineering4001 Your comment could actually be used as a reason why "collage" is needed now more than ever before in history.
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I love these old films - everything explained in such simple ways. A masterpiece
I was awarded my Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in 1980. I wish this video (okay, film) had been shown in my Unit Operations class. It is excellent!
Brilliant video, they explained things so much better in the old days!
+Andrew Gordon Yeah, I love old educational films.
+Ch0plol ~ When the soundtrack has a xylophone in it, you know its going to be good.
Who knew watching an old video from 50s would score me an interview as an Oil Refinery worker
Pedro De Santiago awesome! did u get the job?
@@pdidyking2 I hope that I can use this Seemingly worthless Ptec degree to the same soon.
It seems there was a golden era of teaching in the 1950s (maybe ushered in by Richard Feynman) to explain things with simple words and strong visuals. Teaching you core concepts instead of vocabulary.
Out of all the animations ive seen explaining this process, i never could fathom any of it, until this! That was an amazing learning movie, they did a great job-
How could anyone thumbs down this video? It is a very well made and the explanation is on point.
Hello, how are you doing?
a tree hugger I s'pose.
Love seeing all the pipes, tubes, gauges, regulators, tanks, cracking chambers, check valves, pressure valves etc etc..
at oil refineries ,
This a course that take years of knowledge is explained in effective way in very short. Great job guys, for sharing your knowledge and making the world better.
I must have seen this film at least five times in grades 6 through 9 in the late 70s & early 80s. I can't get the image of the rising playing cards out of my head. That's pretty much what I have remembered about this film for the last few decades.
This film is still the best explanation of refinery processes.
An easily understood explanation of this process. Timeless.
Wow, I find this video is the best one among all video which are available on youtube
What a great film. I studied chemical engineering when I was in school. I feel like if they showed us this video - a lot of the concepts would have been really simple to understand the first time around. Thanks for posting.
I think this film was designed for technicians, logistics personnel, and contract tradesmen. Not four year college bound engineering students. Community college and vocational schools teach way less theory than state college, so industry has to "help" their rookies with this technical documentary.
I'm so addicted to videos like this, brilliant explanation.
I've been in the industry for 20 years. Films like this are exceptional for our newer operators
I've seen films on refining but I like the playing card imagery they use here. . Good way to illustrate it.
It worth to watch this video before starting to learn processes in oil refinery. Every point is explained very well and easy to understand. The language used is also friendly even for non-English-speakers. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I'm native Spanish speaker but the explanation was friendly for people with Intermediate English skills (I believe even for Begginer English people)
Thank you Periscope for making this available. It's a shame that all of the modern renditions are devoid of specifics. Nowadays, profit comes before pursuit of knowledge any day. Hopefully one day films like these begin being made again in our country.
I loved the film , i have never understand this process . But I watching this video I got the process thank you so much for uploading it
The best video with the best explanation. Old stays gold.
Thank you for sharing.
Best documentry Thanks lot👍🙏
Informative video that not only explains the process but a bit of chemistry behind it.
The 1950s was a marvelous time for educational films produced by Shell Oil and Bell Telephone with its Bell Science series (hosted by Frank Baxter); as I vividly recall as a kid in the mid-1960s watching such films in classes at school (US).
Bell Telephone made a number of excellent films both PR and employee training types. I thoroughly enjoy them.
Excellent video. Very accurate. Made an old distillation column operator smile. You should definitely watch this video before reading any distillation book written by Henry Kister.
I’d love to hear any interesting stories/insights from your time working on these.
That process is called fractional distillation or fractionation. Crude oil is heated and then passes through a fractionation column. The products of the fractionation process depends on the temperature where that component starts to separate from the crude oil (Lowest temperature: top). To give a few examples, the precursor for aviation gasoline and jet fuel comes from the distillate that comes from the top of the fractionating column. Asphalt and paraffin wax comes from the bottom part of the column.
Straightforward and practical demo of the process at the start of the video. Very good
Fantastic illustrations
I leave this video a smarter man. That was good. I suggest you watch this if you wish to know the basics of making oil into automobile gas.
Best explanation I've ever seen! Makes it very clear. Now I'm curious what's changed in the last 60-70 years...
I also found this interesting because living in the SF Bay Area, there are a couple refineries around the bay (I know most people don't think of San Francisco and Big Oil in the same sentence , but this IS where Standard Oil got started, and is now called Chevron). So, I've driven past these oil tank farm and refineries since I was born, and was alway curious about what was going on.
Perfect! And that is 50s! Fascinating!
60s ?
Thank you for uploading the video! So well explained!
well explained on the basics , superb.
Kudos to the engineers that figured this out.
That
Was
AHH-Mayzing!
I knew very little detail if any about this process other than crude oil is just distilled into gasoline in a process similar to distillation of pure alcohol into potable beverage alcohol only instead of discarding a 3rd of it , it's all kept and has different purposes
This was a huge eye opener
Thank you for posting !
Like other commenters have said, very clear and concise explanation of the process. I wonder if it was made later than the 50s, though; the style and presentation seem a little more informal, and the music at 20:06 is "Trade and Commerce" by Johnny Pearson from a 1968 KPM LP "Orchestral Kaleidoscope".
Thanks for explaining were the tunes come from! If you look at the 11:20 the film shows what looks like a ‘69 Pontiac.
@@deltapee9259 I saw that too..
fantastic video! really explains oil refinement well!
Excelent video, this explanation cost for two semesters in petroleum university
fantastic and simple explanation of refinery process
Man, at first I thought this was going to be a propaganda film, not even five minutes in and I'm glued to the screen.
The surface area of 6000 sq ft blew my mind.
I actually felt my mind expand at this point, lol
Very thorough video that explains various stages in the refining processes... I would imagine by now, even more extensive molecular change processes have been introduced and developed...
Fantastic film, thanks for posting! It's a wonder these refineries don't end up in huge explosions.
Michael Lang they do explode when not maintained or when knowledge or safety factors is missing. they haven't aloud any. refinerys to be built in the US in over 50 years I believe
That's what I was thinking. All that heat with many tonnes of volatile flammable liquids and gases. It's amazing. Those refineries must be very well managed.
Refinery fires can
Be bad
wow , Golden . How incredible the science were in that days ! after 90 the distribution of knowledge stopped and this is a proper example !
really love this Documentary ! God Bless ! knowledge is power !
after two days I have an Interview with my country's "Eastern Refinery" .the salary is 69US$ per month . the money is okay in a 3rd world country like Bangladesh . I finished all Academic course possible in Bangladesh and i'm 28 years Old unemployed.
pray for me
I worked in an oil refinery 33 years..hell of a lot of climbing ladders..hauling on huge valve...dangerous conditions...hydroflouric acid..ammonia..chlorine...silicate..flue gas..fuel gas..sampling.. rounds...catastrophic failures of pumps..exchangers..fires..clearing out units for turn arounds...very difficult work..what a life.. death from nitrogen..h2s. Seen it all..smh
Ilived in south east texas for a long time and I moved away. I work at a paper mill now and paper mills are dangerous but I always tell my co workers they don't understand: When something happens with a refinery the whole town has to evacuate.
Refineries in Venezuela are worst jajaja I’d like you had seen actual conditions that they find each other
My daughter was killed on her first day of work when hot oil steam was released into her face.
@@TheEgg185 I'm so sorry.. I've had many injuries..but have made it. My deepest sympathy
@@TheEgg185my condolences 😢
Fascinating, as usual.
Excellent film. Thank you.
Thank you for uploading this film. I seen this in school class two different times and always tried to find it on web.
What an incredible video! I thought it was going to be cheesy, but damn, is it good!
Wendrful , thank you to share the knowledge
wow this is sooo good
Would love to see one made on oil pipe lines /distribution
Super video, very clear message.
Damn, this works just like pappy's still!
the reason a eedsw I am ex, gooda
So very interesting and understandable ! Thank you
İt could have not been better, impeccable.
Nice shiny new refinery! I wonder what it looks like now? This does a great job of explaining the whole refining process.
The Shell plant in La Porte, TX looks like it's scheduled for a LOPC sometime soon... They all look awful nowadays though haha; no reason to keep them shiny if they'll be retired by the end of the century.
@Zach Alexander I work at Shell Deer Park and I guarantee they are not shutting down anytime soon. Although you are correct these plants are dulapidated, neglected, and falling apart as we speak. I was wondering if this was actually the cat cracker thats out here now haha. It's all rust now. I've been to the top of that and the crude oil tower. They're tall.
the old videos explain so much better...
Excellent! A topic so easily explained.
Amazing work..guys
*This was soooo Educational!!*
Thank you for keeping this Film on TH-cam.
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Fascinating.
excellent video......thanks for sharing
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Awesome video ! Very well done for the year!!
Well done for any year.
That music hook around 6:30 is great.
wow, so this is what TV used to be like
Mark Yolktern Actually this was an instructional film, not a TV show.
I was hoping that they would include the coker in the explanation. That is the process where they take the heaviest material out of the crude oil, and make coke, which is used for industrial processes, as well as making anodes for aluminum production.
Wow fascinating and so well explained.
I like the music
excellent explaination..
2chemical engineers (nephew&grand nephew)in my family. I live close to 2 oil refineries .l worked for Spoornet and my job took me to both refineries. Amazing experience. If one stands in front of the refineries it's sound is strange and eerie.
Wow.. Brilliant video.. Thanks..
very educational video.
My father retired from there, thankfully before Brandon got in office. My dad was a supervisor for 36 years. He use to call it prison because it was 12 hour shifts
Appreciable work 👌👌👌
This is nice ! Super
Thank you! Cheers!
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This is how we need to learn!
We take oil for granted!
16:03 The danger is that if somehow, the catalyst drains out from the reactor when its shut off the hydrocarbons can leak into the regenerator where there is oxygen and can cause massive explosions. Proper maintence of the valves can prevent this.
You mean proper inspection of said valves there’s no set replacement interval on this equipment every refinery has a different design and different design limitations that play into factoring a lifespan for the equipment that’s why Inspections on equipment like this are crucial
Vintage as shizzle! LOVE IT!
this was awesome
Excellent video!
exllent explanation
Its easy way of understanding O&G process video, who r all not working in O&G plant. thank u - shell & periscopefilm
wish they have same method of teaching in near future
why do old videos explain things so well and detailed? i watched dozens of modern videos that just shove a vague diagram at you and your left wondering how the distillation actually happens with liquids and gasses separating so neatly. this video goes into detail and treats you like your intelligent.
thank you
Wonderful video.
Brilliant video.
😬 cheezy music a must in the process
i feel like im back in school watching lol
#Awesome 👍👍👍👍 ....ur explanation is mass... Every body can understand very easily..Tnq so much....
Is the distillation column cooled by a source?
GenghisKhan22 the overhead is cooled usually by cooling water or fans. After it condenses, a portion of it is returned to the tower as reflux.
very good
At an era where large corporations like Shell had a soul...
Good stuff here
Thanks for Sharing!
Can you imagine the guys who figured all this stuff out? Not to mention building the equipment to do it. Did you know that it was us Americans who not only figured out how to drill for oil, but came up with the equipment to do so? NOT the Brits, Arabs, Iranians, Russians, Chinese or French, but Americans!
Figuring the stuff out is the easy part. You can probably do it with a small amount and regular chemistry glassware. The hard part comes when you want to make it on an industrial scale with efficiency. That's why chemical engineers and petroleum engineers make more money than chemists.
Yes. The process of the knowledge of crude oil to the practice of the refining process of today is mind boggling. A lot of innovative, motivated, and brilliant minds behind it.
From the 1800s to the 1950s pretty slow I'd say.
chemical engineers. Proudly, I am one of them although work in a different industry
Think of how history would have been different if the Arabs would have figured out how to do their own oil and didn't need the West to do it for them.
Ahh, yes, the - not so - good old times! The retro-grade of this movie, the music, the theatrical speaker, the stop-motion, all is quite endearing. And as things sometimes go, it happened in the last weeks that I wrote a few articles about procedures in the Dangote refinery close to Lagos (for a knowledge platform I am not allowed to mention here) - and I could not have explained it better. I missed the term "naphtha" though, nowadays you do not get "straight run gasoline" from a distilling unit just like that. For explaining the reforming process I would have said a few words about "octane value" and what it means, otherwise it remains pointless - yet the RON became relevant ca. 15 years after this movie was made, so it is a surprise it was mentioned at all.
All in all I agree with other comments: the creators obviously knew their stuff and really really were trying to pass on their knowledge. The stop-motion animation is hopelessly antiquated - and then again: the persons who put these molecule models together (in weeks of work for a few seconds of film) knew what these models actually mean, you can see the toluene molecules and xylene molecules. Modern CGI looks more slick of course, but you can tell often, that their makers do NOT know basic physics. And that the script department and the animation department live different lives and do NOT support each other.
Tip to the hat. Despite the retro-vibe this 70-year-old film can be shown to anyone starting to work at a refinery today. It deserves more likes.
Except it is not 70 years old. As others have pointed out, there is a graphic of a late 1960s car at 11:22 in the section discussing how straight run gasoline does not have sufficient octane rating for a modern car.
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