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 ...

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

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 ...

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The US Gulf Coast may be getting a massive new petrochemical complex. The engineering firm KBR says it has signed an agreement to license its catalytic olefin and steam cracking technologies to an ...

A novel FCC process that boosts propylene production has been proven in a 30-b/d demonstration plant in Saudi Arabia (Fig. 1). Suitable for an integrated refinery-petrochemical complex, the ...

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 ...