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FCC PROCESS OF HEAVY FEED STOCK WITH IMPROVED YIELD OF LIGHT OLEFINS Bulatov R.M., Jirnov B.S. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University There is written about most perspective method of FCC process with improved yield of light olefins using in industry. It is described FCC process for heavy feed stock which modified to produce greater yields of light olefins; particularly, ethylene, propylene and butylene with less production of dry gas; i.e., hydrogen, methane and ethane at relatively high conversion. Keywords: catalytic cracking process, FCC process, propylene, heavy feed stock, light olefins, ZSM additives, medium pore zeolite, coked catalyst Propylene is second in importance only to ethylene as a petrochemical raw material building block. Propylene has traditionally been obtained as a by-product from steam cracking to produce ethylene and from refinery fluidized catalytic cracking processes to produce gasoline. Propylene is conventionally produced through FCC processes, dehydrogenation processes, and predominantly from steam cracking processes. The projected growth in demand for propylene has started to exceed that of ethylene so that existing processes cannot satisfy the foreseeable future growth in the demand for propylene. Typically, however, FCC units produce only around 5 wt - % of propylene. As a result, propylene production from FCC units is forecast to grow by more than 40 % over the next 10 years, with a large part of this demand coming from Asia. Consequently, modifications to FCC units can increase propylene production are necessary. Several references disclose modified FCC processes to improve propylene yields [5]. The propylene demand from FCC is gro