Burton process

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The Burton process is a thermal cracking process invented by William Merriam Burton and Robert Humphreys.[1] The oil industry used it to double the production of gasoline in 1913. This thermal cracking process was patented on January 7, 1913 (Patent No. 1,049,667).

The first thermal cracking method, the Shukhov cracking process, was invented by Vladimir Shukhov (Patent of Russian empire No. 12926 on November 27, 1891). While the Russians contended that the Burton process was essentially a slight modification of the Shukhov process, Americans refused to concede and the Burton patent remained in use.

In 1937 it was superseded by catalytic cracking.

It is still in use today to produce diesel.

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References

  1. ↑ Jakle, John A. and Sculle, Keith A. (1994). The Gas Station in America. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 
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