Hunt, D.
David Hunt is a Senior Principal FCC Technologist for W.R. Grace & Co. He has more than 25 yr of FCC experience, ranging from process design, operations, troubleshooting and catalyst technical service. Mr. Hunt has spent most of his career at Grace but also worked for several years at Stone and Webster (now TechnipFMC) and Shell Oil. He has published more than 20 technical articles on the FCC process and presented technical topics around the world. His current role is to provide high-level technical support to Grace’s FCC customer base as part of Grace’s Global Customer Technology (GCT) group. Mr. Hunt earned a BS degree from the University of Wyoming and an MS degree from University of Houston, both in chemical engineering.
Conventional FCC to maximum propylene production
Fluid catalytic cracking is one of the most important conversion processes used in refineries. This process converts heavy petroleum fractions into lighter, higher-value products, such as gasoline, propylene and others.
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