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 ...

This article presents how Saudi Aramco evaluates the performance of selected fluid catalytic cracking catalysts and compares this performance with vendor projections in terms of gasoline yield, ...

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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 ...