Petroleum Chemistry, Vol.51, No.1, 32-38, 2011
Catalytic Cracking in Today's Deep-Conversion Refinery
A trend in the development of catalytic cracking, one of the most important high-production-volume refinery processes, is integration into deep-conversion refinery complexes. We address studies on variation in the diesel/gasoline ratio and the processing of vacuum tower bottoms, renewable biomass, and polymer-containing wastes in complex facilities involving catalytic cracking and hydroconversion on nanosized heterogeneous catalysts.