2018年10月23日 · Ethane crackers are plants that perform the first step in the process of transforming ethane – a component of natural gas – into plastics products. First, the plants separate ethane from natural gas to produce ethylene, the building block of plastics and other industrial products.

Steam cracking is a petrochemical process in which saturated hydrocarbons are broken down into smaller, often unsaturated, hydrocarbons. It is the principal industrial method for producing the lighter alkenes (or commonly olefins), including ethene (or ethylene) and propene (or propylene).

2012年3月15日 · What exactly is an ethane cracker? An ethane cracker takes ethane, a component of natural gas found in abundance in the Marcellus shale, and processes it—or ‘cracks’ it—into ethylene. It does this by heating the ethane up so hot that it breaks apart the molecular bonds holding it together.

Ethane “cracker plants” are industrial facilities that create the building blocks for plastics manufacturing. They also create air pollution that harms our health and makes climate change worse.

2019年10月25日 · Plastic has long been made from oil, but today it’s increasingly made from ethane, a component of natural gas. To turn ethane into the building block of plastic, petrochemical companies are investing in ethane cracker plants.

2016年6月7日 · -- Shell Chemicals’ decision to build a multibillion-ethane cracker plant here is enormous news, but what exactly will the plant do? According to Shell officials, the plant will take ethane...

2017年6月6日 · In the petrochemical industry, two of the main feedstocks for steam crackers are naphtha and ethane. Naphtha is primarily derived from crude oil, while ethane is more prevalent in natural gas and natural gas liquids (aka NGLs , a mixture of various hydrocarbons often co-produced along with natural gas).