Best Practice Guide

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Lighting

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Commissioning

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Best Practice Guide Glossary

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CATALYTIC CRACKING Return to list of terms

A refinery process that converts a high-boiling range fraction of petroleum (gas oil) to gasoline, olefin feed for alkylation, distillate, fuel oil and fuel gas by use of a catalyst and heat.

Source: California Energy Commission