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Originally Posted by DarkTrigger
A lesson in chemistry and refining...
The alkylation unit using short chain hydrocarbons to produce longer chain branched hydrocarbons (stuff with like 100+ octane rating).
The isomerization unit breaks down long chain hydrocarbons to produce shorter chain branched hydrocarbons (also stuff with 100+ octane rating).
When you just distill the crude, you don't normally get a lot of good branched molecules that'll give you an high antiknock rating (mostly get straight chained hydrocarbons with nasty sulfur compounds), therefore, refineries gotta use really energy/chemically intensive processes to produce it (hence the premium price for the fuel).
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Lol Mr.Chemist, bth i suck at chem, i barely passed, liked anatomy better.
I was hopping that you mention that it would add more horse-powers
