Preparation of light fuel fractions from heavy vacuum gas oil by thermal cracking reaction

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This work deals with thermal cracking of heavy vacuum gas oil which produced from the top of vacuum distillation unit at Al- DURA refinery, by continuous process.

An experimental laboratory plant scale was constructed in laboratories of chemical engineerin The thermal cracking process was carried out at temperature ranges between 460 with liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) equal to 15hr distilled by atmospheric distillation device according to ASTM D as a gasoline fraction and above 220oC as light cycle oil (LCO).

fractionated to light fractions (gasoline, kerosene and gas oil) by atmospheric distillation device.

(gasoline, kerosene and gas oil) were distilled by atmospheric distillation device in order to obtained distillation curve for these fractions.

Physical properties in order to studying the possibilities of industrial uses.

obtained by this process equal to 82 wt.

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