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Evaluation of improvements in petroleum refining technology : incentives, research & development and outcomes
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The Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process was introduced commercially in 1942; in the half-century of its existence, it has been improved again and again, so that plants today operate on a much larger scale and at a fraction of their original unit costs. This paper provides a methodology for a study of the history of improvements to the FCC process, to understand both their engineering and economic natures.
Improvements in an industrial process can take many forms - new pi...
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- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Publisher's website
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- OIES paper
- Publication date:
- 1994-01-01
- Paper number:
- EE18
- ISBN:
- 0948061812
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- English
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- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Copyright date:
- 1994
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