P-We-10 Use of H-FER in MFCC process to increase the light olefins yield

Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Raquel Bastiani1, Lam Y. Lau1, Claudia M. L. A. Baptista1, Cristiane A. Henriques2 and Victor Teixeira da Silva2, (1)Cenpes, PETROBRAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2)Programa de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The catalytic cracking of gas-oil using FER lead to an increase in the light olefins production without altering the LCO yield and quality, contrarily to what was observed with the MFI. These results indicate that FER is more selective to gasoline cracking than the MFI in mild FCC operation.

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