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De-ethanizer/absorber

A tower in a cracked gas plant that receives unstabilized cat-cracked gasoline and compressed noncondensed gases from the gas recovery system. Ethanes and lighter components are removed from the top of the tower. The bottoms product is the feed stream to the debutanizer.