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Visbreaking

Term · Energy · MLC-T-ENE-002432

A thermal cracking process in which heavy atmospheric or vacuum-still bottoms are cracked at moderate temperatures to increase production of distillate products and reduce viscosity of the distillation residues.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENE-002432
FieldEnergy
SubjectPetroleum
ReferencesEIA Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "Visbreaking",
  "field": "Energy",
  "definition": "A thermal cracking process in which heavy atmospheric or vacuum-still bottoms are cracked at moderate temperatures to increase production of distillate products and reduce viscosity of the distillation residues.",
  "subject": "Petroleum",
  "references": [
    "EIA Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/energy/visbreaking/"
}

Record 2,417 of 2,500 in Energy terminology (MLC-0117). Request the full dataset.