A Review of Modelling of the FCC Unit–Part I: The Riser

TW Selalame, R Patel, IM Mujtaba, YM John - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heavy petroleum industries, including the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit, are useful for
producing fuels but they are among some of the biggest contributors to global greenhouse …

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process modeling, simulation, and control

CIC Pinheiro, JL Fernandes, L Domingues… - Industrial & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This paper focuses on the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process and reviews recent
developments in its modeling, monitoring, control, and optimization. This challenging …

Petroleum refinery process modeling: integrated optimization tools and applications

YA Liu, AF Chang, K Pashikanti - 2018 - books.google.com
A comprehensive review of the theory and practice of the simulation and optimization of the
petroleum refining processes Petroleum Refinery Process Modeling offers a thorough …

Parameter estimation of a six-lump kinetic model of an industrial fluid catalytic cracking unit

YM John, MA Mustafa, R Patel, IM Mujtaba - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work a simulation of detailed steady state model of an industrial fluid catalytic cracking
(FCC) unit with a newly proposed six-lumped kinetic model which cracks gas oil into diesel …

An open source fluid catalytic cracker-fractionator model to support the development and benchmarking of process control, machine learning and operation strategies

O Santander, V Kuppuraj, CA Harrison… - Computers & Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study describes the capabilities of an open source integrated framework for the
dynamic simulation and control of a refining operation, comprising a fluidized bed catalytic …

Optimal design and operation of an industrial fluidized catalytic cracking reactor

AT Jarullah, NA Awad, IM Mujtaba - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
Fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) is regarded one of the most significant operations in the
oil refining industries to convert feedstock (mainly vacuum gasoil) to valuable products …

Distributed economic model predictive control for an industrial fluid catalytic cracking unit ensuring safe operation

M Huang, Y Zheng, S Li - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
The economic performance of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit plays an important role in
the refinery factory. In order to improve the dynamic economic performance as well as …

Spanning the flow regimes: Generic fluidized‐bed reactor model

IA Abba, JR Grace, HT Bi, ML Thompson - AIChE Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Probabilistic averaging is used to model fluidized‐bed reactors across the three fluidlization
flow regimes most commonly encountered in industry (bubbling, turbulent, and fast …

Prediction of molecular distribution and temperature profile of FCC process through molecular-level kinetic modeling

Z Chen, G Wang, S Zhao, L Zhang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
This work aims to build a molecular-level process model framework to simulate the fluid
catalytic cracking (FCC) process. The process model consists of the riser, regenerator, and …

Core-shell equivalent reactor network model to bridging CFD and process simulations of a fluidized bed reactor

Y Du, H Cheng, S Li, X Chen, Y Li, W Ren… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Equivalent reactor network (ERN) is expected to narrow the gap between the computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) and process simulations of a fluidized bed reactor (FBR). In view of …