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🛢️ Petrochemical Cracking Simulator: Thermal vs Catalytic (FCC) Hydrocarbon Cracking

Interactive 3D hydrocarbon cracking simulator: watch heavy alkane chains split into lighter fragments in a thermal or catalytic (FCC) reactor, then separate by boiling point in a fractionating column.

Chemistry & Materials3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water

Details

CategoryChemistry & Materials

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsThermal/Catalytic mode toggle buttons switch the cracking mechanism and product selectivity; cracking-temperature slider (400-800 C) sets reactor severity and crack probability; Start reaction button spawns and cracks feed molecules continuously; Reset clears the reactor and fractionating column and zeroes the yield stats.

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⚙ Under the hood

3D refinery cracking-unit model: heavy C16H34 alkane chains enter a reactor tube, undergo homolytic C-C bond scission into shorter alkane and alkene fragments, then rise through a fractionating column that sorts them into gas, gasoline, kerosene, diesel and residue by simulated boiling range. Toggle thermal (450-750C, non-catalytic, random scission) vs catalytic FCC (zeolite catalyst, lower temperature, gasoline-selective) cracking and watch live fraction-yield bars update.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install