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FLEXICOKING
FLEXICOKING A continuous process for thermally cracking the residues from petroleum distillation and
other heavy oils. It combines uidized-bed (or xed-bed) coking of residuum with coke gasication. The
products are mainly C
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hydrocarbons. Developed from the *FLUID COKING process by Esso Research
and Engineering Company in the early 1970s and licensed by that company and the Union Oil Company of
California. Five units were operating in 1988.
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