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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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The world's top oil exporter, which was expected to cut back gasoline imports significantly, is forced to keep buying spot barrels due to start-up problems at the new residual fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit at Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical (PetroRabigh) sources familiar with the unit's operations said.
The upgrade also added a 200,000 bpd vacuum distillation unit, a 92,000 bpd catalytic cracking unit and a 26,000 bpd alkylation's unit.
And, if the design of the reactors is done with care, the processing can have minimal environmental impact Editors Scheirs (Australia) and Kaminsky (Germany) are polymer specialists deeply involved in the field, and they bring together 28 contributions beginning with an introduction to feedstock recycling of plastics and proceeding through discussion of various aspects of catalytic cracking, quality of fuels, reactor types, and monomer recovery.
 
 
 
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