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Catalytic Cracking of Lower-Valued Hydrocarbons for Producing Light Olefins

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A number of important chemicals are made from light olefins such as propylene and ethylene, and it is expected that market demand for these light olefins will continue to grow at 4–5% annually, and the average overall growth of propylene will be about 1% higher than that of ethylene. From the viewpoint of supply of feedstock and demand of light olefins, it is anticipated that the thermal cracking process of naphtha will be gradually transformed to a catalytic process such as ACOTM that can efficiently produce both ethylene and propylene in high yield. Also, together with primary light olefin production technologies utilizing heavy feedstocks such as DCCTM, and HPFCC, supplementary propylene production technologies utilizing C4–C4 such as SUPERFLEXTM, MOITM, and PROPYLURTM will be applied gradually in commercial production.

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  1. Green Chemistry Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, 305-600, Korea

    Yong-Ki Park, Chul Wee Lee, Na Young Kang & Won Choon Choi

  2. SK Energy Institute of Technology, Daejeon, 305-712, Korea

    Sun Choi, Seung Hoon Oh & Deuk Soo Park

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Park, YK., Lee, C.W., Kang, N.Y. et al. Catalytic Cracking of Lower-Valued Hydrocarbons for Producing Light Olefins. Catal Surv Asia 14, 75–84 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10563-010-9089-1

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