hydrocracking

use in petroleum refining

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  In cracking

  …automobile and jet fuel increased, hydrocracking was applied to petroleum refining. This process employs hydrogen gas to improve the hydrogen-carbon ratio in the cracked molecules and to arrive at a broader range of end products, such as gasoline, kerosene (used in jet fuel), and diesel fuel. Modern low-temperature hydrocracking was…

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  In petroleum refining: Conversion to light fuels

  Hydrocracking, a catalytic cracking process conducted in the presence of hydrogen, was developed to be a versatile manufacturing process for increasing the yields of either gasoline or jet fuels.

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  In petroleum refining: Hydrocracking

  One of the most far-reaching developments of the refining industry in the 1950s was the use of hydrogen, made possible in part by the availability of hydrogen as a by-product of catalytic reforming. Since the 1980s hydrogen processing has become so prominent that many…

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