TY - DATA AU - Guzmán,J.D. AU - Ruiz,M.D. AU - Ruiz,M.D. ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) TI - Residual Processing in FCC: SPE 70801 PY - 2001/// CY - Dallas, Texas PB - Society of Petroleum Engineers N2 - When the company decided to participate in the international market, it became necessary to increase the throughout in the Refinery. At that moment, fuel oil had a very low price, so there was no incentive to increase the feed to the Topping units once the capacity of the vacuum and coker units was surpassed. After a strategic analysis an opportunity was founded in the operations of the two cat crackers. The idea of feeding these units with atmospheric bottoms and converting them into valuable products, showed a very good economic return. This was based in the fact that both crackers were operating in a low utilization mode UR - https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/Bibliotecas/https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/LACPEC2001/Spe70801.pdf ER -