![]() ![]() Thermal cracking is currently used to "upgrade" very heavy fractions ("upgrading", " visbreaking"), or to produce light fractions or distillates, burner fuel and/or petroleum coke. Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) produces a high yield of gasoline and LPG while hydrocracking is a major source of jet fuel, diesel, naphtha and LPG. Oil refinery cracking processes allow the production of "light" products such as LPG and gasoline from heavier crude oil distillation fractions such as gas oils and residues. His process doubled the amount of gasoline that could be produced from a barrel of crude oil. The first commercial plant was built in 1936. 12926, November 27, 1891.Įugene Houdry (1892-1962), a French mechanical engineer, pioneered catalytic cracking and developed the first commercially successful process after emigrating to the United States. The first thermal cracking method, the Shukhov cracking process, was invented by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939), in the Russian empire, Patent No. (1816-1885), of Sheffield Scientific School (SSS) at Yale University. In 1855, petroleum cracking methods were pioneered by American chemistry professor, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. ![]()
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