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FCC testing at bench scale: New units, new processes, new feeds
As the FCC process has evolved over decades, several laboratory scale equipment have appeared to maintain
a proper assessment of catalysts activity. Several laboratory equipments are available for simulating
the FCC process, from the well known fixed bed, MicroActivity Test to newer, fluid bed or transported
bed units. As well, a number of units have been created to simulate other parts of the process such as
regenerator or stripper, The increased pressure for treating non-conventional feeds, from reprocessing
gasoline to extra-heavy feeds or oils produced from biomass containing large amounts of heteroatoms,
increase the needs to have a laboratory test which is as close as possible to the process so that data
extraction from the laboratory test are simplified, thus less prone to errors or misunderstanding.Financial support by MICINN (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 MULTICAT) and MINECO (Project MAT2011-29020-0O2-02 and Subprogram for excellence Severo Ochoa, SEV 2012 0267) is gratefully acknowledged.Corma Canós, A.; Sauvanaud, LL. (2013). FCC testing at bench scale: New units, new processes, new feeds. Catalysis Today. 218-219:107-114. doi:10.1016/j.cattod.2013.03.038S107114218-21