{"id":11667,"date":"2023-06-04T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T06:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:29:12","slug":"petroleum-coke-pet-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/petroleum-coke-pet-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum Coke (Pet Coke)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Petroleum Coke:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a final <strong>carbon-rich solid material<\/strong> and residual waste material <strong>extracted from oil refining.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a spongy, solid residue from oil distillation that can be burned for fuel similar to coal.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>byproduct created when bitumen<\/strong> is found in tar sands.<\/li>\n<li>Bitumen contains a higher number of carbon atoms than regular oil and it\u2019s these atoms, extracted from large hydrocarbon molecules using heat, that go on to form petcoke.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>high in calorific value<\/strong> and easy to transport and store.<\/li>\n<li>It releases toxic gases like <strong>carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, mercury, arsenic, chromium<\/strong>, nickel, and hydrogen chloride after burning.<\/li>\n<li>There are two distinctive grades of Petroleum Coke viz. <strong>Calcinable or Green Petcoke and Fuel Grade Petcoke.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Application:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is widely used by <strong>power stations<\/strong> and several manufacturing industries including <strong>cement, steel and textile plants<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Bitumen?<\/h3>\n<p>Bitumen is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum. It is a naturally occurring substance that is often found in oil sands and asphalt deposits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/economy\/news\/govt-permits-import-of-pet-coke-as-raw-material-for-lithium-ion-batteries-123060200960_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt permits import of pet coke as raw material for lithium-ion batteries<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum Coke (Pet Coke) is a final carbon-rich solid material and residual waste material extracted from oil refining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}