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refineries use fluid catalytic cracking to correct the imbalance between the market demand for gasoline and the excess of heavy... A schematic flow diagram of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit as used in petroleum refineries... A schematic flow diagram of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit as used in petroleum refineries... A schematic flow diagram of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit as used in petroleum refineries... the fluid catalytic cracking process breaks large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules by contacting them with powdered catalyst at... This fluid catalytic cracking process had first been investigated in the 1920s by Standard Oil of New Jersey...

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