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CatCracker operators, FCC mechanical and reliability technicians, CatCracking maintenance and process engineers, supervisors, manufacturers and suppliers and managers will be coming here to learn more from each other, and improve safety, reliability, productivity and profitability in the Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit (FCCU).

Great communications with other refiners is what CatCracking.com is all about.

You see some initial articles on cat cracking operations and safety (sticking valves, torch oil, afterburning). We encourage you to contribute your own articles, particularly experiences that illustrate safety and reliability principles. These would include novel procedures, near-misses, successful applications, or any items which can enhance safety and reliability, and which would be of interest to others.

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HS-FCC

A "revolutionary" heavy oil refining technology being developed in Japan has the potential to make available additional volumes of feedstock to create new petrochemical capacity in Alberta in the not-too-distant future.

Called high-severity fluid catalytic cracking (HS-FCC) refinery, the pilot project is capable of converting low-value gas-oils to higher yields of high-value feedstock for use in petrochemical processes. In simple terms, it could convert heavy oil to streams of ethane, propane and butane. See news forum

FCC News

• FCC Operational Problems
• New US FCC's
• Price of FCC Catalyst Increase $3100/mt 2008
• Worlds First HS-FCC Refinery for Nippon
• Chevron Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Project
• Valero selects ExxonMobil FCC Scrubbing Technology

We are inviting contractors, vendors, and suppliers to advertise their capabilities for construction, turnarounds, catalysts, FCC equipment such as control systems, conventional and specialty pumps and valves, slide valves, air and wet gas compressors, exchangers, cyclones , emissions reduction systems, CO boilers and furnaces, flue gas expanders, etc. How about sending us some stories about your successful projects or applications? We want refiners to have a ready resource to all the Fluid Catalytic Cracking services available.

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