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Process and reactor design
Although a number of different designs exist for the FCC process,a number of general principles can be described on the…
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Fluid catalytic cracking: some background
A short history Commercial production of petroleum dates back to 1859, when Colonel Edwin L. Drake found “rock oil” in…
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Fluid catalytic cracking
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is one of the major conversion technologies in the oil refinery industry. FCC currently produces the…
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Comparison of thermal cracking and hydrocracking yield distributions
Generic coker kinetics and simulation modelThe coking chemical reaction has been studied for many years by the refining industry and…
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Feedstocks in Petrochemicals
Naphtha for Petrochemicals Feedstock Demand Projections for the Petrochemical Sector
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Visbreaking Processes
There are two types of visbreaking processes: coil or soaker visbreaking. Figure 6.5a shows a schematic diagram of the coil…
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Visbreaking
Visbreaking is a mild thermal cracking process applied to reduce the viscosity of VDR to produce fuel oil and some…
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Petroleum Refining Process
General Profile Petroleum refining begins with the distillation, or fractionation, of crude oils into separate hydrocarbon groups. The resultant products…
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Fluid and Flexi-Coking
Fluid coking and flexi-coking are fluid-bed processes developed from the basic principles of FCC, with close integration of endothermic (cracking,…
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Delayed Coking
Figure 6.6 shows a flow scheme in a delayed coking progress and a photograph of a delayed coking unit. The…
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Coking
Despite the development of catalytic cracking processes, coking processes have survived as a popular refining process all over the world…
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Thermal Cracking
Cracking, in petroleum refining, the process by which heavy hydrocarbon molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat and usually…
