Similar, but not the same.
Hydrocrackers require a feed of hydrogen. This creates new bonds of hydrogen generating more valuable products. Often a catalytic cracker would be upstream of the hydrogen cracker, if the refinery has both in the process stream.
My refinery does not. The Wood River Conoco plant has two CCU’s. I spent the entire turnaround last fall xraying weld repairs in CCU one.
I’m proud of our Cokers at Wood River. They are two years old and are the largest in the world on the smallest footprint. It took the worlds second largest crane to build the worlds largest crane to build it. It was made by Bechtel and can be seen from all around North Madison county Beginning in late February will have my company doing the inspections on it and CCU2 for the Spring Turnaround..
The spring turnaround beg