Abstract
Petroleum refinery is an industrial plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas. Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is one of the most important conversion processes in a petroleum refinery, it also occupies very significant position in the refinery due to its economic benefits. RFCC is an extension of conventional FCC process, processing the heavier feedstock, and RFCC technology got great development around the reaction system, including the feeding atomization, quick separation of oil vapor and spent catalysis, steam stripping of high efficiency, temperature control of reaction as well as the innovation of riser reactor. This report shows the typical characteristics of RFCC process and introduces the results of several numerical studies.
