Shukhov cracking process

Refinery using the Shukhov cracking process, Baku, USSR, 1934

The Shukhov cracking process is a thermal cracking process invented by Vladimir Shukhov and Sergei Gavrilov.

Origins

Shukhov designed and built the first thermal cracking device for the petrochemical industry. His patent (Shukhov cracking process – patent of Russian Empire No. 12926 from November 27, 1891) on cracking was used to invalidate Standard Oil's patents (Burton process – Patent of United States No. 1,049,667 on January 7, 1913) on oil refineries.^{[ citation needed ]}

Present

In 1937 the Shukhov cracking process was superseded by catalytic cracking. It is still in use today to produce diesel.

See also

• Cracking (chemistry)
• Timeline of historic inventions
• Burton process

References

• Information on cracking in oil refining
• Biography of Vladimir Shukhov
• "Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.", Rainer Graefe und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN   3-421-02984-9.