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Ethane, a colourless, odourless, gaseous hydrocarbon (compound of hydrogen and carbon), belonging to the paraffin series; its chemical formula is C2H6. Ethane is structurally the simplest hydrocarbon that contains a single carbonâcarbon bond. The second most important constituent of natural gas, it also occurs dissolved in petroleum oils and as a by-product of oil refinery operations and of the carbonization of coal. zoom_in.
An ethane cracker takes ethane, a component of natural gas found in abundance in the Marcellus shale, and processes itâor âcracksâ itâinto ethylene. It does this by heating the ethane up so hot that it breaks apart the molecular bonds holding it together. Crackers often feed other nearby plants that create more refined products further âdownstream.â Crackers are generally very large industrial plants.