Light fluid catalytic cracking

Reboiled stripping is efficient for mixtures containing a significant amount of light and intermediate components. An example is the separation of C2 and C3 fractions from a hydrocarbon mixture issued from fluid catalytic cracking. The initial precooled mixture is sent to the top of a distillation column provided only with reboiler. The top product contains gases and light components stripped out... 

In present-day refineries, the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit has become the major gasoline-producing unit. The FCC s major purpose is to upgrade heavy fractions, that is, gas oil from the atmospheric and vacuum distillation columns and delayed coker, into light products. Atmospheric gas oil has a boiling range of between 650-725°F.9... 

Catalytic cracking is the process of upgrading gas oil or even residual oil (heavy oil) to produce gasoline, distillates, light olefines, etc. Commercialized processes include fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), residual oil catalytic cracking (RFCC), and catalytic pyrolysis, etc. 

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) has been used since the 1950s to turn heavy distillates (vacuum gas oil) into a series of light and dense fractions. The FCC catalysts can also be used as pyrolysis catalysts. 

Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is one of the main industrial catalytic processes, in which heavy hydrocarbons are converted into lighter hydrocarbons. The main products are gasoline and light cycle oil. The reactions are carried out in an entrained flow reactor, in which the... 

FCC (fluid catalytic cracking) to develop novel molecular sieves which are comparable with or better than ZSM-5 in shape-selectivity of light olefins (C3=-C5=). 

Combination processes (Table 2.10) link two light gaseous streams to form a larger higher valued fuel product. At least one of the gas streams used in the combination process is a reactive olefin hydrocarbon molecule produced via fluid catalytic cracking, coking or outside petrochemical operation. The major combination processes are alkylation, etherification and polymerization. 

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