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(11) EP 0 193 222 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
20.07.1988 Bulletin 1988/29

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.09.1986 Bulletin 1986/36

(21) Application number: 86200137

(22) Date of filing: 31.01.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB IT NL SE

(30) Priority: 25.02.1985 GB 8504807

(71) Applicant: SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Larive, Jean François Robert Arsene
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  • Wernersson, Clas Ingemar
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(54) Process and apparatus for the continuous thermal cracking of hydrocarbon oils and hydrocarbon mixtures thus prepared


(57) A process for the continuous thermal cracking of hydrocarbon oils by heating a hydrocarbon oil and causing it to flow through a thermal conversion zone, in which proeess at least part of the gaseous material produced during said heating is withdrawn from the heated oil prior to its introduction into a thermal conversion zone.





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