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catalytic cracking

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catalytic cracking [¦kad·əl¦id·ik ′krak·iŋ]
(chemical engineering)
Conversion of high-boiling hydrocarbons into lower-boiling types by a catalyst.


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s Wilmington refinery has been down for scheduled maintenance to its gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit.
CB&I's scope consists of EPCM and fabrication services associated with the revamp and expansion of the refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU), along with a 11,500 barrel per day grassroots liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) Merox[TM] unit.
Filling a gap in the literature for a practical approach to the topic, this book is unique in including a whole section of case studies presenting a wide range of applications from polymerization reactors and bioreactors, to distillation column and complex fluid catalytic cracking units.
 
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