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{{Short description|Thermal cracking process in oil refining}}
[[Image:Russian Cracking.jpg|thumb|200px|Refinery using the Shukhov cracking process, Baku, USSR, 1934]]

The '''Shukhov cracking process''' is a [[Chemistry:Cracking|thermal cracking]] process invented by Vladimir Shukhov and Sergei Gavrilov.  Shukhov designed and built the first thermal [[Chemistry:Cracking|cracking]] device for the petrochemical industry. His patent (Shukhov cracking process – patent of Russian empire No. 12926 from November 27, 1891) on cracking was used to invalidate Standard Oil's patents ([[Chemistry:Burton process|Burton process]] – Patent of United States  No. 1,049,667 on January 7, 1913) on [[Chemistry:Oil refinery|oil refineries]]. In 1937 the Shukhov cracking process  was superseded by catalytic cracking. It is still in use today to produce [[Chemistry:Diesel fuel|diesel]].

==See also==
* [[Chemistry:Cracking|Cracking]]
* Timeline of historic inventions
* [[Chemistry:Burton process|Burton process]]

==References==
* [http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining5.htm Information on cracking in oil refining]
* [http://www.shukhov.org/shukhov.html Biography of Vladimir Shukhov]
* "Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.",  [http://www.uibk.ac.at/baugeschichte/mitarbeiter/graefe.html Rainer Graefe] und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, {{ISBN|3-421-02984-9}}.

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