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Fall 2019
Thermal cracking of heavy oils is important industrially in processes such as visbreaking, coking and residue hydroconversion. In these processes, residue conversion is limited by formation of heavy products. Heavy product formation also contributes to industrially relevant problems such as...
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Spring 2020
Budnar Subramanya, Annapoorna Shruthi
Bitumen partial upgrading technologies aim to produce a product that meets viscosity and density specifications for pipeline transport with little to no addition of diluents. Thermal cracking processes are attractive for partial upgrading since they result in an increase in the light fractions....