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catalytic cracker
noun
- a unit in an oil refinery in which mineral oils with high boiling points are converted to fuels with lower boiling points by a catalytic process Often shortened tocat cracker
Example Sentences
At the neighboring Amuay refinery, only one of its five distillation plants and the catalytic cracker - key for making gasoline - were working, two separate sources said.
The refinery is set to restart operations in the fluid catalytic cracker unit between 7 p.m.
Investigators concluded the Feb. 18, 2015, explosion聽was the result of a hydrocarbon release from the fluid catalytic cracker unit into the electrostatic precipitator聽鈥斅燼 filtration device that removes fine particulates.
The fluid catalytic cracker unit refines gasoline and is crucial to producing California-grade fuel.
Cal/OSHA found that the fluid catalytic cracker unit was not working properly for nine years.
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