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 ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have shown that a zeolite material called Na-ZSM-5 is useful in enhancing the chemical conversion of biomass into olefins—a precursor chemical that is used to make ...

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 ...

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Kazakhstan’s state-owned JSC NC KazMunayGas (KMG) subsidiary ANPZ LLP is repairing the fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 100,000-b/d Atyrau refinery following the unit’s unplanned shutdown in early ...