Can a pipeline be designed to transport crude oil, products like petrol, diesel and gas all in one pipe? how?

I take it by the words you have selected, you are asking if gasoline, diesel and natural gas can all be transported in the same pipeline. In theory it can but there are some practical problems with natural gas because it needs to flow at a fairly continuous and smooth rate. That is difficult to do with liquids in the same pipeline with the natural gas.





With regard to gasoline and diesel, that is done by separating each product with a pipeline ';pig'; to minimize the contamination of each product with the other.Can a pipeline be designed to transport crude oil, products like petrol, diesel and gas all in one pipe? how?
that's how it's being done today as you read this.....





History Channel had a great episode on the pipeline..





lets say you pump a million gallons of gas then a million gallans of diesal... it will mix some in transport


so you take 900,000 gallons of gas then 200,000 gallons of Mixed fuel, and the other 900,000 will be diesal.





some powerplants and manufacturing plants can burn the mixed fuel so it doesn't get wasted.





Title of the show


Modern Marvels: Oil (look for this in upcoming episodes)





Description of the show:





Petroleum was used by the ancients to waterproof Noah's Ark and fuel the lamps of the Temple of Jupiter. But it was in Pennsylvania in 1853 that the first oil well was dug, and an industry born. With the mass production of the car in the early 20th Century, demand for this black gold exploded. Technology in the service of oil has changed the world as we know it. Improved drill bits allow deeper subterranean deposits to be extracted, off-shore oil rigs and thousand-mile pipelines make deposits in remote areas accessible, and oil tankers the size of three football fields have made it commonplace for a car in New Zealand to run on petroleum taken from Africa's depths.





From the days of the dinosaur to a behind-the-scenes tour of a modern rig, this is the saga of the fuel that drives the world.Can a pipeline be designed to transport crude oil, products like petrol, diesel and gas all in one pipe? how?
chuck norris can!