Energy & Fuels 2000, 14, 945-946
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Distributions of Aromatics, Nitrogen, and Sulfur in Cracked Liquid Products from Microactivity Tests Siauw Ng,*,† Yevgenia Briker,† Yuxia Zhu,† Thomas Gentzis,† Zbigniew Ring,† Craig Fairbridge,† Fuchen Ding,‡ and Sok Yui§ National Centre for Upgrading Technology, 1 Oil Patch Drive, Suite A202, Devon, Alberta, Canada T9G 1A8, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Daxing, Beijing, China, and Syncrude Research Centre, 9421-17Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6N 1H4 Received January 10, 2000. Revised Manuscript Received March 6, 2000 The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit produces gasoline and diesel fuel from heavy gas oil. In FCC research, the most commonly used batch reactor system is the microactivity test (MAT) unit described in an ASTM test method.1 The MAT test is simple and cost-effective. It requires only small quantities of catalyst (4-9 g) and gas oil (usually
