Evaluation of improvements in petroleum refining technology : incentives, research & development and outcomes

<p>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 <em>met...

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Main Author: Enos, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies 1994