Cycle oil

Also known as: light cycle oil, LCO

Cycle oil is the diesel range product from the FCC unit.

As a diesel blendstock, cycle oil is not very highly valued because of its high aromatics content, which gives it a low cetane.

Typically, it is hydrotreated to raise its cetane and then blended into diesel.

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