MYP 10

Unit 5: The oil industry and hydrocarbons


Requirements

Activities

Students should:
  • realise from where the worlds natural resources of hydrocarbons originate
  • be aware of the finite nature of the above.
  • understand the use of hydrocarbons as fuels and a source of valuable raw materials
  • be familiar with fractional distillation and cracking as industrial processes
  • understand the hazards created by the extraction of hydrocarbons and their use
  • be able to classify hydrocarbons as saturated or unsaturated
  • be able to name the alkanes and alkenes up to C5
  • recognise and predict trends in homologous series
  • be aware of the possible alternatives to the continued use of hydrocarbons
Introduction: Articles on the worlds hydrocarbon supply and the geological history of the coniferous forests. The carbon cycle
 
The oil industry
 
Fossil fuels
Breakdown of the worlds main oil producers and the destination of the products.
 
 
 
 
 
Theory of hydrocarbon structures.
 
Nomenclature. Alkanes, alkenes. Nomenclature
Nomenclature
 
One world essay: Oil  
Isomerism
 
Structures with heteroatoms:- alcohols, haloalkanes, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ketones, amines
 
Test on structures up to eight carbons
 
Fractional distillation of crude oil
 
fractional distillation demo
 
 
Homologous series:
 
Properties - Alkanes, Alkenes.
 
Demo: Cracking hydrocarbons
 
The nature of the double bond
 
Demo: Differences between alkanes and alkenes.  
Expt: Determination of boiling point
 
 
Exercise: The boiling points of hydrocarbons
 
Use of hydrocarbons as fuels. Alcohols and their use as fuels. Combustion equations  
 
 
Expt 11: Combustion of alcohols.  
 
 
Test: Hydrocarbons and alcohol
 

Teaching resources

Carbon cycle flash animation  
Greenhouse effect flash animation  
Global warming flash animation  
Nomenclature flash animation  
Oil 1 Video  
Oil 2 Video  
Oil 3 Video  
Oil 4 Video  
Oil 5 Video  
Oil 6 Video  
Oil 7 Video  

 

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