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Fluid Catalytic Cracking

UOP’s fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process can help you maximize your refinery’s profitability by enabling you to achieve your refining objectives and petrochemical objectives effectively and efficiently.

Our FCC, resid FCC, and PetroFCC processes enable you to convert straight-run atmospheric gas oils, vacuum gas oils, certain atmospheric residues, and heavy stocks recovered from other refinery operations into high-octane gasoline,  light fuel oils and olefin-rich light gases such as propylene.

UOP has been designing and licensing FCC technology for nearly 60 years, with a focus of continuous innovation and improvement. Our portfolio includes a number of process technologies (unit styles) to best fit your unique processing objectives, no matter what your feedstock availability or desired product slate.

UOP has unparalleled industry experience with these process technologies and the mechanical equipment that maximizes performance. Within each of these process technologies are several mechanical pieces of equipment that allow the FCC operator to maximize unit performance and profitability, as well as operational flexibility and reliability.

UOP’s successful implementation experience and first-class technical service support in addition to state-of-the-art technology and equipment ultimately makes the difference between a profitable FCC project and a “maintenance” event.

We invite you to take a closer look at our FCC process technologies and equipment technology, as well as our hundreds of successful worldwide applications of both. We also invite you to visit International Alliance Group’s website at triteniag.com for further information and examples of successful FCC project execution and implementation

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