Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the major conversion process used in oil refineries to produce valuable hydrocarbons from crude oil fractions. Because the demand for oil-based products is ever ...

Key market opportunities in the Global Fluid Catalytic Cracking Market include the demand for high-octane fuels in developing ...

A major part of making heavy crude oil into gasoline and other products is the fluidic catalytic cracking processing. The process, first used commercially in 1915, has since undergone a variety of ...

Houston, June 5-- New catalytic cracking technologies for crude oil refining, chemical production, nanotechnology, and gas-to-liquids projects were unveiled at the sixth annual catalyst conference ...

French mechanical engineer Eugène J. Houdry enjoyed racing cars, but during the early 1920s that was hard to do. At the time, France produced little petroleum or gasoline, and worldwide supplies were ...

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The main parts of an FCCU are cyclones, risers, transfer lines, slide valves, reactor/ regenerator, CO boilers/ Flue gas lines, heaters/ pre-heaters and stacks/ incinerators. The functions of the main ...

The Japanese firms Mitsui Chemicals, Microwave Chemical, and Chiyoda are collaborating on a new electrical route to ethylene. Microwave Chemical is developing a process, using microwave radiation, to ...

Kazakhstan’s state-owned JSC NC KazMunayGas (KMG) subsidiary ANPZ LLP is repairing the fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 100,000-b/d Atyrau refinery following the unit’s unplanned shutdown in early ...

Donald L. Campbell, one of four engineers who developed a process that revolutionized the petroleum industry by turning fuels into a variety of useful products, died Saturday at a nursing home in ...