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Why is cracking an important process in oil refining?
Cracking is the most important process for the commercial production of gasoline and diesel
What are the advantages of catalytic cracking over thermal cracking?
Carbonium ion process
What are the advantages of thermal cracking over catalytic cracking?
Carbonium ion process
Is cracking of petroluem fraction a physical or chemical change?
Cracking of petroleum is a chemical process.
Why is aluminium oxide used whilst carrying out cracking reactions in a laboratory?
It lowers the activation energy of cracking, to quicken the cracking process.
Why is porous pot catalyst used in cracking hydrocarbons?
The 'porous pot' that is used in a lab, is used to facilitate the cracking process during heating, the porous pot is used as a catalyst to speed up the cracking process. This allows for the process to occur at a lower temperature.
What is the process that is used to refine petroleum called?
Cracking
What is the process that is used to refined petroleum called?
Cracking
What is the process that decomposes alkanes into alkenes?
This is usually called cracking; It produces unsaturated hydrocarbons as well as smaller alkanes.
How are petrochemicals broken down?
This chemical process is called cracking.
What is a process where molecules are split into smaller more useful molecules?
The process is called cracking. The best way of breaking them up uses heat and a catalyst, so we call this catalyst cracking.
What is an example of catalytic cracking?
"Cat cracking" is the process used to break crude oil down into gasoline, kerosene, adn fuel oils.
