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 ...

Separating crude oil into its several constituents is the function of the oil refinery. The crude oil is put into a still and heated. The molecularly lighter substances are given off, beginning with ...

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 ...