MIT chemical engineers make potentially game-changing breakthrough with crude oil: 'Creates a new way to apply it'

MIT chemical engineers make potentially game-changing breakthrough with crude oil: 'Creates a new way to apply it'

A team of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a new process to separate crude oil components, potentially bringing forward a replacement that can cut its harmful carbon pollution by 90%. The original technique, which uses heat to separate crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and heating oil, accounts for roughly 1% of all global energy consumption and 6% of dirty energy pollution from the carbon dioxide it re…