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Article: Heavycrude.(ChementatoR)(UOP L.L.C.)(Brief article)
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- Chemical Engineering
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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UOP LLC (Des Plaines, III.; www.uop.com) plans to do further development of its Catalytic Crude Upgrading (CCU) technology through an agreement with Brazil's Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) and Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.). CCU is a process for upgrading heavy oil in the field so that it may be pumped through a pipeline.
Based on UOP's fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) technology, CCU upgrades a portion of the heavy raw ...