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: Catalytic Cracker Complex
: Stanlow Refinery
: Essar Oil (UK) Limited
: The £200 million catalytic cracker complex uses advanced process technology to bring heavy fraction molecules into contact with a hot catalyst in a process which breaks, or ‘cracks’, the molecules to produce new hydrocarbon combinations for petrol, diesel, and chemical unit feedstocks. Energy from the cracker is harnessed by a power recovery train, the largest in Western Europe, capable of generating 21 megawatts of electricity. This is fed back to help power the refinery and, together with the eight turbo alternators at the boiler house, enables us to export to the National Grid. Propylene produced on the cracker is fed to the polypropylene plant at Carrington, near Manchester.