A Thermal Cracking is a refining process of breaking down, rearrange, or combine molecules the larger and heavier nonvolatile molecules of hydrocarbons into smaller and lighter molecules by application of heat at high temperatures and high pressures in the presence of a catalyst. The Thermal Cracking was introduced in 1913 but was replaced after 1937 by catalytic cracking, the application of catalysts that facilitate chemical reactions producing more gasoline. The Thermal Cracking processes are gas oil, visbreaking, fluid coking, delayed coking, and other thermal cracking processes.
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