Houdry Cracking Process, Houdry, oxide catalyst

Houdry Cracking ProcessE. Houdry, US 1957648 and US 1957649 (1934).

Decomposition of petroleum or heavy petroleum fractions into more useful lower boiling materials by heating at 500° and 30 psi, over a silica-alumina-magnanese oxide catalyst.

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