SYNOPSIS: -Crude oil and residual oil cracking processes for production of olefins are dirided into four groups, according to the methods of preventing coking trouble in the reactoor.
i) The superheated steam cracking process has an advantage of cracking oils at high temperature and in short residence time, but has a disadvantage of the difficulties in heat recovery.
ii) The cyclic cracking process has wide flexibility in the choice of feed oils, but the construction cost is rather high.
iii) The fluidized bed autothermic or partial oxidation process has an advantage of minimal coking trouble, but has a disadvantage of high olefine production cost due to oxygen consumption.
vi) The circulating heat carrier fluidized bed process has also an advantage of mini-mal coking trouble, besides requires no oxygen. One of the technically important points of this process is how to get high efficiency in the circulation system of the heat carrier.
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