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🛢️ ⛽ ✈️ 🚛 🔥 🧪 ⚙️ Interactive STEM Adventure The Great

Refinery Run From Crude to Consumer —

guide oil through every step of the refinery! 🛢️ → 🏭 → ⛽ → 🚛 🚀 Start the Run!

Phase 1: Extraction ☀️ ☁️ 🟤 🟤 🟤 🟤 🟤 Storage Tank → To Refinery Tap the pump jack, the tank, or the button to extract crude oil! Pump to Refinery! (0/5)

Phase 1b: The Desalter Crude oil has salty water in it! Zap the salt 🧂 and water 💧 before they escape the grid! But don't zap the oil ⚫️! Grid powering up... To Distillation Tower! Restart Desalter

Phase 2: Distillation Inside the tower, crude oil gets heated and separates by weight! Choose a product path: LPG 💨

(Top - Lightest) Naphtha 🧪 Jet Fuel ✈️ Diesel 🚛 Resid 🪨

(Bottom - Heaviest)

Phase 3: Hydrotreating We need to clean the sulfur out! Send to Processing!

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