Petroleum is an indispensable chemical product in industrial production and daily life. The hydrocarbon molecules petroleum are important raw materials the organic industry. hydrocarbons currently used industry usually obtained by fractional distillation of petroleum, which not only consumes more energy, but has poor separation selectivity for some hydrocarbons. Adsorption technology many advan...

For almost a century, various predictions have been made that the human race was imminently going to run out of available petroleum. The passing of time has proven all those predictions to have been utterly wrong. It is pointed out here how all such predictions have depended fundamentally upon an archaic hypothesis from the 18th century that petroleum somehow (miraculously) evolved from biologi...